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CONDITION AND WANTS 



PUBLIC SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 



OF SAN FRANCISCO. 

By a Committee of the Board of Education. 




SAN F R A N ei[-i 
EDWARD BOSQ^UI & CO., PRINTERS, 

No. 517 Clay, and 514 Commercial Street. 

1866. 



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At a meeting of the Board of Education, held 
January 30th, 1866, the Report of the Committee 
appointed to confer with the Legislature, and to take 
such other means as they might deem necessary to 
secure the requsite funds for the erection of school 
buildings, and for the continued support of the Public 
Schools, was adopted, and ordered published. 

D. LUNT, 
Secretary of Board of Education. 



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STATEMENT 

OF THE 

CONDITION AND WANTS 

or THE 

OF SAN FRANCISCO. 



BY A COMMITTEE OF THE BOAED OF EDUOATIOK 



To the Honoi^able San Francisco Delegation 

in Legislature, and citizens generally: 

The undersigned, a Committee of the Board of Educa- 
tion, appointed for that purpose, beg to present, 
for your consideration, the following 

STATEMENT, 

Exhibiting the organization, character, condition, and 
the present wants of the Public School Department. 
The following statistics and statements have been 
made up with care, and will, we believe, be found 
correct, and entirely reliable. We have especially en- 
deavored to exhibit facts clearly illustrating the cir- 
cumstances and important features of the present 
organization of our School Department, and the man- 
agement of its affairs. 



4 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

Tax payers and patrons who support our Public 
Schools, and those to whom we look, and from whom 
we ask assistance, have a right to an account of our 
stewardship ; and this is the more freely given at the 
present time, since it is believed that a good cause 
can but gain the confidence and good will of our in- 
telligent community, the more its affairs are candidly 
and honestly discussed. Open criticism and honest 
examination, can do no harm at any time. Competi- 
tion, or even opposition, is preferable to stolid indif- 
ference. Our department has nothing to fear, but 
much to hope for, from an investigation of its affairs. 
Such, it courts rather than avoids. 

Since the organization of the City Government, we 
believe no department of its administration can, as 
a whole, present a better record than that department 
which has had the responsible trust and manage- 
ment of its Public Schools. Otir School "Trustees" 
and " Boards of Education," have, as a rule, been 
selected from our oldest and very best citizen's, (see 
Exhibit A, appended) and they have generally con- 
ducted our school affairs economically and wisely. We 
do not, of course, deny that there may have been ex- 
ceptions to this, as there are to^ all human rules. But 
if San Francisco has ever had, or still has anything 
within her borders to which she has especially looked, 
and may now point with just pride, undeniably, it has 
been, and is still, her system of Public Schools. This 
has been, and still remains, the one distinguishing fea- 
ture of our community— that which has tended more 
strongly than any other to invite settlement in our 
midst, and increase our reliable population ; has secured 



STATEMENT. 5 

the permanent settlement of ftxmilies, and induced sta- 
bility rather than transient residence ; in this way has 
promoted our general prosperity, and increased confi- 
dence in our sure and steady progress. The Public 
School System, the most sacred trust of freedom and 
good government, best calculated to advance the high- 
est interests and permanent prosperity of our city, 
must be sustained ; not diminished, but increased iiT 
its efficiency. 

From the small beginning of three pupils in 1849, 
the Public Schools of this city, have, during their brief 
history of sixteen years, increased in numbers until 
they now include nearly ten thousand pupils, distrib- 
uted among the following schools, now constituting 
the Free Public School Department of San Francisco : 

One Boys' High School, 5 classes, 4 teachers, (including 

the French teacher) 82 pupils. 

One Girls' High School, 4 classes, 4 teachers, 105 do. 
One Latin do. 2 do. 3 do. 64 do. 

Seven Grammar do. 46 do. 49 do. 2,433 do. 
Twenty-nine Prim. do. 110 do. 114 do. 6,714 do. 

Total number of Schools (exclusive of Evening Schools) 
39, having 167 classes, 174 teachers, and 9,398 pupils. 

In addition to the foregoing, there are six Evening- 
Schools, open eight months in each year, having 11 
classes, 12 teachers, 575 pupils. Also, five special 
teachers — two of music, three of drawing and penman- 
ship ; making a total aggregate of 45 schools, 178 
classes, 191 teachers, and 9,973 pupils. 

The relative number of pupils in the various graded 
of Public Schools, is as follows : 



b PUBLIC SCHOOL EBPORT. 

In the Boys'High School ,008 or fo of one^ ct. of total. 
do. Latin do. .006 or fo do. do. do. 

do. Gn^ls' do. do. .010 or 1 do. do. 

do. Evenmg Schools, .059 or 5i^o do. do. 

do. Grammar do. .239 or 23^1) do. do. 

do. Pnmary do. .664or66it| do. do. 

In explanation of the foregoing, it should be remem- 
bered that the pupils in the High and Latin Schools, 
pursue studies supplementary to the Grammar School 
Course, such only as are eminently practical and well 
calculated to fit them for the various vocations of life, 
which seems the proper business of Public School 
Education. 

(See "Course of Study "in High, Latin, Grammar, 
and Primary Schools, page . 

Our "Grammar and Primary Schools" are divided 
into ten grades or subdivisions, according to tlie at- 
tainments of the pupils, age being but little regarded. 
The first, second, third, and fourth of these grades 
we call Grammar grades or classes — the study of 
English Grammar being limited to these. The remain- 
ing, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth grades 
form the Primary Schools or classes. We have no 
infant classes or primary schools of lower than the 
tenth grade, in consequence of the crowded state of 
our schools. We admit no pupils under six years of 
age, although those between the ages of four and six 
may have legal claims upon us, inasmuch as they draw 
their ^ro rata of State School Fund. 

The lowest age at which pupils have been admitted, 
and the average ages of pupils in the High, Latin, 



STATEMENT. 



Grammar, and Primary Schools, are as follows 



Boys, High School 
Girls' do. do. 
Latin do. 

Grammar Schools. 
Primary do. 



Admitted at. 



12 years. 
12 do. 
10 do. 

Wben prepared. 

6 do. 



Average age of 
those in attendance^ 



141 years. 
15 do. 
14^ do. 
12^ do. 
8i do. 



Note. — A more detailed exhibit of the School Department, showing the 
present organization of the schools, will be found on the loUowing pages — 
Exhibit D. We invite a careiul inspection of this table, as it is a concise 
and comprehensive exhibit of all the schools of the city, as now organized. 



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10 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

SOUHCES OF SUPPORT.. 

From the earliest organization (in 1849) the Public 
Schools of the city have been sustained chiefly by local 
taxation. Appropriations from the State School Fund, 
varying from year to year, but increasing, and now 
about $40,000 per annum, (last year $40,435.08) have 
been added to our local school moneys during the past 
eleven years. The exact amount of these appropria- 
tions, each year, is given in the following table : 

1854. $18,125 00 1860 $13,048 00 

1855 12,913 00 1861 12,725 00 

1856 12,996 00 1862 14,780 00 

1857 12,780 00 1863 26,192 00 

1858 ....... 8,061 00 1864 27,912 00 

1859 11,602 00 1865 36,371 00 

1865-66.... 40,435 08 

The local appropriations from the Oeneral Fund 
of the city, for the support of schools, were at first, (in 
1849-50--51) about $500 per month (in city scrip) or 
$6,000 per annum. 

The annual current expenditures of the City for 
school purposes, from this point forward, has been as 
follows, (inclusive of interest and transfers to Sinking 
Fund.) 

STATISTICS COLLECTED FROM FORMER REPORTS. 
[From Report of Superintendent of Public Instruction.] 

1852 $23,125 1859 $134,731 

1853 35,040 1860 156,407 

1854 159,249 1861 158,855 

1855 136,580 1862 134,567 

1856 125,064 1863 178,929 

1857 92,955 1864 228,411 

1858 104,808 1865 349,826 



STATEMENT. 



11 



The rate of School Tax and the per centage of its 
total, compared with the total City taxes for the several 
years since 1852, has been as follows : 





Rate of 
School Tax. 


Per cent, of 
total Tax. 


1852 


.23 
.28 
.28 
.431 
.35 
.35 
.35 
.35 
.35 
.35 
.35 
*.20 
.35 
.35 


.05 


1853 


.07 


1854 


.08 


1855 


.11 


1856 


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1857 


.15' 


1858 


.14' 


1859 


.10^ 


1860 


.12' 


1861 


.12^ 


1862 

1863 


.12^ 
.09' 


1864 


.11^ 


1865 


.11' 







*Twenty cents tax levied this year in consequence of the ap- 
propriation of $60,000 from the General Fund. 

FINANCIAL STATISTICS OF 1864-'65. 

See Report of Committee on Finance, appended. 

The available School Funds of last fiscal year, end- 
ing June 30, 1865, from all sources, amounted to 
$350,641.78, This money was derived as follows : 

RECEIPTS. 

Balance on hand in School Fund, June 30, 

1864 $24,935 02 

Balance on hand in Special Building Fund, 

June 30, 1864 60,000 00 

Received for rent of School property dur- 
ing the year 1,248 30 



12 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

Received for proceeds of lumber, do. do . . 209 00 

Received for taxes, do. do 219,791 94 

Received for poll taxes 3,697 50 

Received for Evening Schools 200 00 

Received for surplus of remittance for pay- 
ment of interest on School bonds 104 94 

Received from State School Fund, (two ap- 
portionments 40,435 08 

Demand of S. N. Brooks, cancelled 20 00 

Total receipts for the year, as above $350,641 78 

These funds, it appears by the books and accounts 
of the Department, were disbursed as follows : 

CURRENT DISBURSEMENTS. 

For Teachers' salaries $134,699 88 

Janitors' salaries 9,910 95 

Marshals and Insurance 997 13 

Clerks and Carpenters 4,125 00 

Lights 701 62 

Water 246 25 

Furniture 19,862 62 

Books and supplies 6,140 49 

Rents 10,119 68 

Fuel 1,861 93 

Repairs 17,985 45 

Incidentals 2,447 55 

Industrial School 2,400 00 

Grading of Streets 6,099 21 

Taxes returned (illegally collected) . . 872 64 

Quit claim on Fourth street lot 1,500 00 

Improvement of lots 1,350 00 



STATEMENT. 13^ 

Purchase of lots 125 00 

Transfers to Sinking and Interest 

Funds of School Bonds 24,379 73 

Outstanding audited demands, June 

30, 1864 12,894 33 

$258,719 44 

FOR BUILDING PURPOSES, AS FOLLOWS : 

Purchase of Tehama street lot.$9,500.00 

Purchase of Fairmount lot 200 . 00 

Architect's Fees 1,500 . 00 

Lumber 4,422.67 

Hardware 715 . 15 

Hauling 201.00 

Erection of Utah street building 3,480.00 
Erection of Kentucky and Napa 

street building 2,150.00 

Balance of contract on Denman 

building 15,425.00 

Part payment on contract for 

Lincoln building 53,500.00 $91,093 82 

Total expenditures of School Department 

for last fiscal year ending June 30, '65 . . $349,813 26 

Besides the foregoing $91,093.92, disbursed for build- 
ing purposes by the Board of Education of last year, 
there were furniture supplies, amounting to $19,862.52; 
also, building and furniture contracU, and outstanding 
bills for same, amounting to $42,765.22, which sum 
has been paid by present Board, from this year's current 
funds, thereby increasing our deficiency to this amount. 

The above $91,862.52 and $42,765.22, added to the 



14 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

above $91,093.82, gives an aggregate of $153,721.56 
expended and contracted for last year, for building pur- 
poses, and school furniture. And it will be further ob- 
served, that the sum of $24,935.02, on hand June 30th, 
1864, added the $60,00, special building fund, and the 
$42,765.22, anticipated from this year's resources, con- 
stitute nearly the amount expended for building pur- 
poses by the late Board, plainly showing that the 
ordinary resources of the School Department are insuf- 
ficient for providing school buildings as rapidly as they 
are demanded. 

The expenditures for building and furnishing school 
houses during the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1865, 
(and the preceding) though not a large disbursement for 
schools, (for a city having the population and wealth of 
San Francisco) have, nevertheless, formed a topic for 
considerable comment ; and the policy of the late and 
former Boards in devoting so much to the erection of 
expensive buildings for, and increasing the number of 
the higher grades of schools before the lower or primary 
schools were provided for, may be questioned. We 
are free to say that we regret that the larger por- 
tion of the building funds of the last and preceding 
years were not applied to the erection of houses especi- 
ally designed for the accommodation of the Primary 
Schools, which were permitted to remain, where they 
had long been and where they still are, in rented and un- 
suitable buildings. Had such application of funds been 
made, there would have been saved from fifteen to 
twenty thousand dollars, which has been or will have 
been expended from the school funds in "Rent" and 
"Repairs" before we can secure the erection of better 



STATEMENT. .15 

buildings. The Primary Schools, then organized, would 
have been comfortably accommodated, meantime, and 
others, ere this, could have been established to fully 
meet the rapidly increasing demand of the city. The 
present embarrassments of the School Department, 
(which, without speedy relief, will soon become exceed- 
ingly serious in their consequences) have undeniably 
arisen in part, if not chiefly, from the building policy 
of preceding years, but somewhat, also, from the healthy 
growth of the schools. At any rate there would have 
been no difficulty in meeting the current expenses of 
this year had the Board been saved the $14,000 to 
$16,000 in rents, and the $5,000 to $6,000 in repairs, 
and the $52,000 building and other extras on last 
year's engagements, all of which have been or are to 
be paid from this year's resources. 

This is as far as we need discuss the policy or man- 
agement of the late and former Boards of Education, 
more especially as their acts are expected to form no 
precedent for the guidance of the present Board. We 
do not propose to question the intentions or the motives 
of the late or former Boards. When the present em- 
barrassments are overcome, and new accommodations 
have been provided for the hundreds now out of school, 
and for other thousands claiming our attention and to be 
provided for, we imagine there will be less impatience 
felt, and fewer strictures passed upon what has or what 
has not heretofore been done or left undone. 

The present Board proposes to accept the good work 
of the former Board, to avoid the erection of expensive 
buildings, to go backward in nothing, but address itself 
earnestly to meet the present, and growing demands of 



16, PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

the city, by building, during the present year, good 
substantial buildings for the Primary Schook. This is- 
the class of houses now required. 

A consolation we have in this connectioe,^ to wit : 
those fine buildings recently erected, though^, perhaps, 
earlier provided than they should have been,, are paid 
for ; they are ours to enjoy, and are wanted , and they 
will long remain for the use and benefit of our suc- 
cessors, and, perhaps, be pointed to by theua as the 
most creditable and useful investments of the city. 

And still another and greater gratification is the- 
fact, and this we believe should be kept constantly in 
view, to wit : That when placed in possession ©f SchooL 
Houses, suitable, and sufficient in number, and by this 
means are saved our present heavy expenses for rents^, 
repairs, and other extras, no difficulty whatever will 
thereafter be experienced by the School Department, 
in meeting its current expenses with the funds secured 
by the present school- tax — the same as has been levied,^ 
except in one instance, (last year) during the past nine: 
years. 

What concerns us now, and what we wonM urge 
upon your attention, is the present and future pressing- 
necessity of the department. That these may be fully 
understood, we subjoin the following statement and 
estimates of receipts, resources, and liabilities of the: 
present fiscal year, ending June 30th, 1866. 

RECEIPTS OF FISCAL YEAR 1865-'66. 

Apparent balance in School 

Fund, June 30th, 1865. $828 52 



STATEMENT. 17 



Keceived to date, Jan. 15, 

'66, from School Taxes 

of current year, 35 cents 

on each $100 224,756 62 

Keceived from rent of 

School Property 663 50 

From State School Fund, 

apportionment for July 

1st, 1865 14,435 96 

Eeceived from Poll Taxes, 2,071 50 
Fines in Police Court. ... 25 00 

Sale of Fairmount school lot 400 00 



Total receipts to date, Jan- 
uary 15th $243,181 10 



5243,181 10 



ANTICIPATED RECEIPTS FOR BALANCE OF 
THE YEAR. 

As pej^ estimates obtained from Auditor^ s 
Office, January 25, 1866. 

State Apportionment for 

January $28,607 59 

Balance of Taxes 10,000 00 

Rent of School Property. 600 00 

Poll Taxes 500 00 

Surplus from Sinking Fund 2,800 00 
For Tuition from Evening 

Schools 250 00 

Total estimated receipts for 

balance of the year $42,757 59 



18 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

Total available funds, received and anti- 
cipated, from all sources for present 
fiscal year, 1865-'66 $285,938 69 

Although the current resources of the School Depart- 
ment, from taxes, have been $13,839.68 more this year 
than the revenue of the preceding year similarly derived, 
the above $285,938.69 (present year's resources), it 
appears is less than the School Funds of 1864-65 
($350,641.78) by $64,703.09; but this, however, is 
explained by the balance on hand June 30, 1864, 
($24,935.02), and the Special Building Fund, on hand 
same date, ($60,000); the amount of these two items 
constituting a portion of the above available funds of 
last year, $350,641.78. 

DISBURSEMENTS OF 1865-66. 

Of this above sum, there have been already disbursed 
the current expenditures of the first two quarters of 
fiscal year, (up to date, Dec. 31st, 1865) as follows : 





FIRST QUARTEE. 


SECOND QUARTER. 


For Teachers' Salaries. . . 


$41,862 22 


$46,029 86 


Janitors' do. 


3,277 00 


3,356 91 


Secretary do. 


450 00 


450 00 


•Carpenters' do. 


600 00 


600 00 


Marshals and Insur- 






ance 


2,791 90 




Water 


57 00 

60 29 

9,704 84 


60 00 


Lights 




Furniture 


4,460 20 


Books and SuppUes. 


3,192 97 


1,903 14 


Rents 


3,387 78 


3,938 00 


Fuel 




1,441 52 



STATEMENT. 



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Building 

Repairs 


37,575 

5,142 

816 


75 
94 

77 


14,423 30 

4,834 86 

203 35 

3,357 34 


Incidentals 

Grading of Lots. . . . 


Removal of Legal 
Incumbrances .... 




80 00 


Improvement of Sts. 
Purchase of Lots. . . 


1,513 


56 


460 90 
760 00 


Returned Taxes, (il- 
legally collected) . 
Industrial School . . . 


1,475 

600 



112,508 
6,069 


32 
00 

34 
42 


255 50 
597 98 


Total demands au- 
dited 

Transfers to Sinking 
Funds 


86,613 86 
11,055 23 


Total expenditures. . 


*$118,577 


76 


*$97,669 09 


Total expenditures for past 
two quarters, to date, (De- 
cember 31st, 18(i5) 




$216,246 85 



* Expenses of last quarter, $20,908.67 less than same for preceding 
quarter. 

THE ESTIMATED EXPENSES FOR THE BALANCE OF 
THE YEAR, 

Based upon all the retrenchment on present rates of 
expenditures which is practicable, or possible, without 
very seriously impairing the present usefulness and 
efficiency of the schools now organized, are as follows ; 
Salaries of Teachers, 

four months, at $16,740 94 

per month 



Salaries of Teachers, 

two months, at. . . . 15,965 94 
Salaries of Janitors, 

six months,* at. . . 1,118 97 
Rents, six months, at 1,312 66 



$66,163 76 
31,931 88 

6,713 82 

7,875 96 



20 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

Secretary, six months, 

at 150 00 900 00 

Carpent'rs, six months 

at 200 00 1,200 00 

Water, six months, at 18 00 108 00 

Industrial School, six 

months, at 200 00 1,200 00 

$116,093 42 

GENERAL EXPENSES. 

Furniture— Broadway .... $1,500 00 
do. Other School 

Houses 1,500 00 

Fuel 1,000 00 

Lights 500 00 

Building— Broadway Con- 
tract 1,800 00 

Build'g Fences, Outhouses, 
etc., etc., and Grading of 

Broadway Lot 1,000 00 

Incidentals 600 00 

Books, etc 600 00 

Grading Filbert Street Lot 2,000 00 

Crossing of Harrison and 

Eleventh streets 50 00 

10,550 00 

Demands audited since 

December 31st, 1865.. 2,066 15 

Bills on the table 2,200 00 



STATEMENT. 21 

BiUs to present 1,000 00 

Architect's fees 1,000 00 

6,266 15 

$132,909 57 

* Much omitted, which, though very necessary expenses of the School 
Department, are not absolutely indispensable for continuance of the schools. 

Total necessary expenses for balance of the year, 
$132,909.57. This sum, it will be seen, is less by 
$83,337.28 than the expenditures of the past six 
months. 
To the sum expended during the past two 

quarters $216,246 85 

Add the estimated expenses for the remain- 
ing two quarters — the balance of the year 1 32,909 57 

And we have a total as the annual expen- 
diture of School Department $349,156 42 

The difference between this sum and the 

total funds of the year 285,938 69 

Is $63,217 73 

And we have this sum as an inevitable deficiency to 
be met and provided for. 

The above estimate of expenses is for each class of 
expenditures, placed at the lowest possible amount, and 
unless the most rigid economy is used, the expenses will 
considerably exceed this estimate. 

In explanation of the foregoing deficit, we beg here 
to call special attention to some of the above items, 
constituting the total annual expenditures of the School 
Department for present year. This sum, $349,156.42, 



22 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

though not a large school fund for a city havmg the 
population of San Francisco, as hereafter stated, does 
not represent merely the sum of the ordinary or proper 
current expense of the School Department. On the 
contrary, there has been disbursed by the present 
Board, on certain extra expenditures and on building 
contracts and other expenses pertaining to last and pre- 
vious years the sum of $98,398.29, (which, without 
reflection on previous Boards, we think should never 
have been allowed to embarrass the ordinary resources 
for the payment of this year's current expenses,) as fol- 
lows, to wit : 

Add balance due on Lincoln School con- 
tracts, and furniture for same, paid by 
present Board 52,113 44 

Transfers to Sinking Fund for redemption 

of School Bonds of 1854 and 1861-60.. $17,124 65 

Industrial School appropriation from School 
Fund to a meritorious institution, but 
one having no connection with our De- 
partment $2,400 00 

Street Assessment 1,974 46 

Grrading and Improvement of lots^ — paid 

$3,357.34,andestimatedbalances$3,050 6,387 34 

Purchase of lots 760 00 

Buildings: 
Fairmount School House. . . $2,668 00 
Pine street " '' ... 2,167 84 
Broadway '' "... 6,000 00 
Estimated balance on Broad- 
way school house 2,800 00 



STATEMENT. 23 

Addition of two rooms to 

Hayes' Yalley school 2,616 00 

16,251 84 

To remove legal incumbrances on Tehama 

street school lot 80 00 

$45,878 29 



And we have total, as above $98,398 28 

This sum deducted from the above total of our annual 
expenses, leaves $250,758.13 as the true current dis- 
bursements of the present year for the support of our 
schools, inclusive of furniture, rents and repairs. No 
one familiar with the extent, efficiency and usefulness of 
our Department, will charge us with wastefulness and 
extravagance. Divide this sum by the number of our 
school children, and we have, as the annual cost of tuition^ 
less than $30, or less than $2.50 per month for each pupil, 
even including those in the High and Latin Schools, 
while the ordinary rates of tuition in reputable private 
schools vary from $5 to $10 per month, or $60 to $120 
per annum — two to four hundred per cent, greater. 

We now come to ask what shall be done to avoid one 
or the other of two disastrous alternatives, (to the 
City and our Department,) the closing of the Public 
Schools, or the keeping of them open, while we are 
utterly unable to meet our engagements with the Teach- 
ers and other employes ? It must be remembered that 
the late Board, before retiring, entered into a written 
contract iviih the Teachers and other salaried employes, 
engaging the one party to serve, and the other by hon- 
orable inference at least to employ and pay for one 
year, from the first of last July. The present, succeed- 



24 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

inar to the liabilities of the former Board, are at least 
honorably committed to this agreement. How they 
shall meet it and keep the Schools open, is now the im- 
portant question. At this point when we are about 
asking for relief, we are met (certainly without proper 
reflection) with the vague charge of wastefulness and 
extravagance ; but who can point to the first act of the 
present Board open to such charges ? Having become 
liable for all its important obligations for salaries, etc., 
by inheritance, the present Board of Education has 
incurred few new responsibilities — none of moment ; has 
been compelled to erect four small school houses (of the 
many required) at a total cost, of $16,241.84, and this 
includes all beyond the current and other ordinary ex- 
penses of the Department during the present year, ^. e. 
since July 1st. 

We now hear the popular and talismanic words : 
Economy, retrenchment, reform ! The present Board has 
economized, retrenched, and, so far as practicable, it has 
"reformed;" it is still willing and anxious to do so. 
But all these efforts in measures of economy are entirely 
insufficient to meet the present emergency. This is 
plain to any one who will investigate the subject with 
candor. 

The great items of expense in our Department during 
the balance 'of the year will, as heretofore, be for teach- 
ers' salaries and rents ; but to meet the pressing and 
urgent and constantly increasing demands upon the 
Board, both of these items will hereafter be rather 
increased than diminished. We require more instead 
of less school rooms, and additional teachers to occupy 
them. 



STATEMENT. 25 

It is true we have five special teachers of music, 
drawing and penmanship, such as are employed in the 
School Departments of every considerable city in the 
Union. These are paid one hundred and fifty dollars a 
month, each. By disregarding the written contract made 
with them by the late Board of Education, they could be 
discharged, but this would secure a saving of but $4,500 
during the balance of the year ; and also a few other As- 
sistant Teachers could, in like manner, be placed in charge 
of new classes or discharged, regardless of the "contract," 
and their temporary removal would require the disband- 
ing of classes, but not of entire schools. The sum saved 
by this questionable means would, however, be but 
paltry, and, added to the preceding, would be utterly 
insignificant compared with the relief required. 

The closing the High Schools is recommended. We 
think it well to restrict the present High Schools (and all 
others) to the smallest practicable number of teachers. 
But if we close these schools, we should make such a back- 
ward movement as would give us an educational status 
from fifty years to two centuries behind every living and 
thriving city on the continent, north, south, east or west; 
aye, behind any respectable town or village in the North- 
ern, Eastern or Middle States ; and should be taking a 
position, which, let us hope and believe, no citizen having 
her honor and welfare at heart is willing to see San 
Francisco assume. 

We need not, as is customary, look to that little 
State of Massachusetts with her six Normal Schools 
and her seventy-two incorporated Academies, which she 
helps to support from her public funds, and her hundreds 
of High Schools, with their classical and higher depart- 



26 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

ments of learning, open and free to all her children. 
Maryland, just emerging from her thrall, awaking from 
her night of slavery, is about organizing her system of 
free schools, and has already provided by law for a free 
High School in every county of the State. And shall 
the Legislature of California now commence a backward 
march, and compel our city to abolish the most, if not 
the only creditable High Schools in the State ? What 
shall be said of such legislation as this ? But suppose the 
High and Latin Schools were annihilated, what expense 
would be saved? Simply the difference between Gram- 
mar and High School tuition; for the pupils who are pro- 
moted from the Grammar to the High Schools are mostly 
young, and would, of course, hereafter, remain in other 
schools; yet, if these schools should be discontinued, but 
few of the pupils now attending them would return to the 
Grammar School, since they have advanced beyond the 
grade of those schools. The pupils of the High and Latin 
Schools, in this event, would, therefore, be at once virtu- 
ally deprived of further school accommodations to which 
they are entitled. What would be lost? The complete- 
ness of our system — the incentive to all lower schools. 
What an insignificant saving this, to compensate us 
for such a mortifying sacrifice ! 

Again, a general reduction of salaries has b^en sug- 
gested. 

In this connection, not the written contract with our 
teachers merely, but the honor of the Department 
should be considered. But are salaries too high? 
Principals and other male teachers receive not more, but 
less, in San Francisco than in several Eastern cities. 

See pomparison. 



STATEMENT. 



27 



THE HIGHEST AND AVERAGE SALARIES PAID TO TEACHERS 
IN THE VARIOUS SCHOOLS OF SAN FRANCISCO. 





Highest per 


Lowest ijer 


Average per 




Month. 


Month. 


Month. 


In Boys' High School. . . 


$208 33 


$100 00 


$158 33 


Gh'ls' " " ... 


208 33 


100 00 


127 08 


Latin " " ... 


208 33 


100 00 


166 66 


Grrammar Schools. . . 


175 00 


50 62 


ab't85 08 


Primary " 


100 00 


50 00 


" 66 25 


Evening " , . . 


75 00 


62 50 


69 6D 


Colored " ... 


87 50 


75 00 


79 16 


Chinese " 


80 00 


80 00 


80 00 



Monthly. 



Annually. 



$145 



18 $1742 16 



Average salaries paid male Teach- 
ers 

Average salaries paid female 

Teachers 69 80 837 60 

Average salaries paid male and 

female Teachers 78 00 936 00 

The average salaries paid Principals and male assist- 
ants in Boston is $2,050 per annum ; $170 per month. 
Ditto average in New York, $1,950, and per month 
$162. 

When we consider the salaries paid in the above 
cities, and the relative cost of living in the Eastern States 
and California, we think that little can properly be said 
concerning the high salaries of our corps of teachers. 

Who among the professional gentlemen of this, city 
would be willing to pledge their services for such annual 
compensation as the average or even the highest rates 
which we pay our male teachers, i. e. $145.18 or 
$208.33 ? Clerks and accountants in many of the mer- 
cantile houses of this city receive a more liberal compen- 



28 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

sation for much less exhausting services, and if female 
teachers are more generously paid here than elsewhere, 
it is undoubtedly true, also, that we secure the services 
of the most intelligent and liberally educated ladies to be 
found in the Union, and that they are here required to 
perform more service, have larger classes and greater 
responsibilities than elsewhere. Lady teachers, in most 
Eastern cities, are placed in charge of classes of from 35 
to 40 pupils — in New York 36 pupils. Here their 
classes are for the most part limited to 60, but generally 
exceed this number, and often contain 70-80 and 90 
pupils. Local circumstances, cost of living, etc., should 
be considered. All female service in any and every 
department of society — to the credit of California — is 
better paid here than in other parts of the world. 
Female servants in New York receive $9 to $10 per 
month, here they receive $20 to $30. The rates of sal- 
aries were raised, during the latter part of last year, 
under the pressure of a remonstrance against low wages, 
and a petition for an increase of ladies' salaries, signed 
by several thousand citizens, including half of the liberal 
tax payers of the city. And this was done with the 
wholesome [idea that teachers were not the mere 
dependent stipendiaries of the city, relying upon its 
clemency, but rather its faithful laborers and most 
deserving benefactors. Reduction in the present fixed 
salaries would now be unjust and impracticable. But 
that every one who will, may have the opportunity of 
suggesting further retrenchment and economy, we have 
prepared a detailed statement of the regular salaries 
paid by the department, which will be found appended 
hereto. 



STATEMENT. 29 

Another suggested measure of economy, which we 
hear proposed, is the general lowering of the grade and 
standard of education in the Public Schools, besides 
abolishing the High Schools and trenching upon the 
present organization of Grammar Schools. Some pro- 
pose a reduction of the present rate of school tax from 
35 cents to 25 cents on each $100 of assessment, 
as the completion of what is claimed a wholesome and 
necessary economical reform. In this connection are 
unfortunate facts which should be remembered, to wit : 
our resources are found to increase on present rate of 
taxation (35 cents on $100 valuation) but slowly, only 
four or jive per cent, per annum, while our school chil- 
dren increase twenty to twenty-Jive per cent, per annum. 
It will therefore be seen that the present school tax 
cannot be reduced; that it should be increased, rather 
than diminished. San Francisco is not overburdened 
by tlie support she extends to her Public Schools. 
Last year the city paid for salaries of her Police Depart- 
ment $124,500, to her Public School teachers $134,000 
only. From which of these two disbursements do the 
people at large and society receive the best and greatest 
returns? If retrenchment be economy should it be 
commenced first in the Public Schools ? Would not 
an indifferent and parsimonious support of the schools, 
considered in this connection, be the reverse of econ- 
omy even in dollars and cents? 

Should the suggested reduction of our present rate of 
school tax be carried into effect, it would as certainly as 
an effect follows its cause, degrade our present Public 
School system — a school system for the whole people ; 
would restrict it to the patronage of the poor, and pro- 



30 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

vide for these Primary Schools only. It is, indeed, 
openly said ' ' the rich man will provide for the educa- 
tion of his own children" in "select" or "private" 
schools and "colleges" and "universities"! ! As though 
Pubhc Schools were institutions of benevolence or 
charity — supported for the exclusive benefit of those 
attending them. As though the community and State 
had no immediate interest in her schools, and should 
be influenced by no considerations except those of 
charity. 

It seems strange that such a proposition could have 
been made in this country, and in the year of our Lord, 
eighteen hundred and sixty-three, (see legislative report 
of 1863); and stranger still, if such policy now has 
intelligent advocates. However intended, such a propo- 
sition is mercenary and aristocratic — an ti- American, 
and excessively anti-Californian. The idea of putting 
a badge of poverty and disgrace upon the children and 
patrons of our Public Schools — it is odious, and is 
repugnant to to the impulses and sentiments of gener- 
ous and manly hearts. What parents would send their 
children to such schools, or allow them to be seen in 
the neighborhood of, or even on the way leading to 
them? Such a school system might do in semi-civilized 
countries where the withering influences of class, dis- 
tinctions and castes are forced upon half-enslaved masses, 
but in our country, and in this age, it will not do — by 
Californians it will never be tolerated. The schools of 
our city are not the almonries of its charity or benevo- 
lence ; they are the nurseries of its children, for whose 
interests, future respectability and prosperity, like a 



STATEMENT. 31 

good and wise parent, it should carefully and gener- 
ously provide. 

We hear it asked why has not the condition of our 
finances been sooner foreseen and made known ? In 
answer, we beg to say that the general facts were pretty 
well understood in the Board, reported by the Superin- 
tendent, and published some three or more months 
since. 

In that Report the deficit in our funds at the end of 
the year, with "the exercise of the most rigid economy 
possible," was estimated at $30,000 ; and this estimate 
would have been very nearly correct, had not the 
receipts from real estate taxes been some $20,000 to 
$30,000 less than we were led to expect at the begin- 
ning of the year. Too much confidence was then felt 
in the estimates of expenditures for this year, made by 
the Finance Committee of the late Board of Educa- 
tion, in May last. In that estimate there was included 
$60,000 for buildings for this year-^ and in this estimate 
was a recommendation of the same Finance Committee, 
that the current School tax of 35 cents be reduced to 25 
cents on the $100. That reduction not being effected, 
(the Board of Education being unable to change its action 
and reduce the rate fixed,) it was naturally supposed that 
the 35 cents tax would produce sufficient to meet the 
current expenses of the schools for the present year. 
Fortunately for the Department that the Board could not 
make the reduction; for, in that case, if not compelled 
to actually close the schools, we should have been 
without a dollar to continue them from the present 
date; that is to say, our funds of the present year would 
have been still further reduced by the sum of $70,000! 



^9 



PUBLIC SCHOOL REPOET. 



The following are some of the estimates above refer- 
red to : 



Salaries for the 
June 31, 


year ending 
1866. 


Actually expended to date, for one 
lialf year's expenses. 


Teachers 

J anitors 


....$154,904.85 
1139t.58 


$81,892.06 fo 

6,633.91 

14,165.04 

9,496.80 

5,096.11 


r 2 
do 
do 
do 
do 


of 4 quarters. 
do do 


Furniture 

Repairs 


... 10,000.00 
6,000 00 


do do 
do do 


Books, &c 


.... i,6n.oo 


do do 




$189,913.43 


$123,283.92 





The excess of actual expenses over these estimates 
for the half yesiY past have been $28,297.21, 

The following items of the present year's expenses 
were not enumerated in the Report of the Finance 
Committee at the beginning of the year. 

Furniture, furnaces, pipes and registers, 
plumbing, &c., for the Lincoln building, 
and extra labor and material for that 

building $28,987 00 

Returned Taxes (illegally collected years 

since) 1,730 00 

Grading 4th street Lot, last year's contract. 1,405 50 

Books for Library 970 22 

On account of these overlooked items, we have already 
disbursed $33,092.72 for the past half year. 

The regular current expenses of the Department for 
teachers' and janitors' salaries, rents, &c., (the unavoid- 
able current expenses) of the Department have exceeded 
the estimate of that Committee by about 15 per cent, 
and these items will, in the year's expenses, exceed the 
estimate of the Committee by about $50,000. 

These remarks are made with no disposition to find 



STATEMENT. 33 

fault with or criticise our predecessors in the late or 
preceding Board of Education, but to explain our 
present position and conduct. And, in justice to the 
Finance Committee of the late Board, it should be 
stated that a deficiency seems to have been foreseen by 
them, arising from the increased school facilities then 
about to be provided ; yet, we were at first misled by 
their assumption that $60,000 could be set apart for 
building, and still the School tax be reduced from 35 
to 25 cents, or nearly one-third, as though less instead of 
more money was required to carry on the then organ- 
ized, and constantly increasing number of schools. 

To meet the anticipated deficiency, the late Finance 
Committee proposed the sale of certain real estate 
belonging to the School Department. This measure, it 
will be remembered, was attempted by the present 
Board not long since, but failed for want of concurrence 
in the Board of Supervisors. This seems now an avail- 
able resource, and, if it be the only one, it should be 
applied at once. Certainly, how much soever may be 
deprecated the sale of certain property, in consequence 
of its prospective value to future generations, it would 
be less disastrous to them, even, than the closing or 
seriously crippling the Public Schools of the present 
time. 

But perhaps other and more judicious means may be 
devised than those suggested. If so, so much the better. 
Possibly there may be idle funds lying in the City 
Treasury, which can be applied, and which, if neces- 
sary, may hereafter be restored. Money is what we 
want. We must have the means of keeping open the 
schools and protecting the honor and the best interests 



34 



PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 



of the city, and every citizen ; it matters little to us 
from what source we are supplied. 

SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS REQUIRED. 

But as it is well known our Department designs more 
than the preservation of the present inadequate organiza- 
tion of the Public Schools And the continuance of the 
school system in such manner as shall be just to all classes 
of our citizens, affording fully, freely and alike to all 
equal rights and privileges, involves the granting to 
our Department still other and further aid. 

To creditably, or in any suitable manner sustain the 
Public Schools, so that all who seek to do so may be 
able to enjoy their blessings, we must have an important 
increase of school accommodations — a large number of 
new school houses. 

PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN HOW ACCOMMODATED. 

Below will be found the number of pupils in the sev- 
eral grades of the Public Schools, in rented buildings 
and in school houses belonging to the city : 



SCHOOLS. 


In Kooms Owned 

by the 

Department. 


In Booms Bented 

by the 

Department. 


High Schools 

Grammar Schools 

Primary do 


252 
2,381 
3,869 


" 2,768 


Totals 


6,502 


2,768 



Of the number of primary pupils in buildings be- 
longing to the School Department, nearly one-half are 



STATEMENT. 35 

in houses more or less unsuitable, while some of 
them are a disgrace to the city. Evening Schools 
omitted in the above statement. Three of these are 
in rented, and three in buildings owned by the city, 

CHARACTER OF PRESENT SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS, 

Our Grammar Schools are in houses erected by 
the Department ; for the most part these are accommo- 
dated in tolerably convenient and suitable buildings ; 
some are in houses quite as elegant and complete as 
could be desired, vide those of the Lincoln and Frank- 
lin Districts. The High School buildings, though small 
— quite insufficient to meet the demands of the future — 
are nevertheless comfortably accommodating those pu- 
pils now in attendance. 

But in the Primary Schools we find the features of 
the picture at once reversed. With these, comely and 
respectable buildings, suitable yards and out houses, 
light, well ventilated, neat and commodious rooms, and 
convenient and healthy locations, are rare exceptions, 
not the rule, as should be the case. And the unwise 
economy of renting these badly constructed, inconven- 
ient, and unhealthy premises, consists not alone in high 
rents, which we have generally to pay for them — rates 
in many instances entirely disproportionate to the value 
of such property, and which would amount to a liberal 
rate of interest on the money that would be necessary 
to supply more and far better accommodations — the 
bad economy of this extemporizing school houses and 
class rooms from month to month involves '^repairs" 
an enormous aggregate paid to a small army of carpen- 
ters, masons, plasterers, paper-hangers, painters and 



36 PUBLIC SCHOOL EEPOET. 

white-washers, who are contiimally employed in doctor- 
ing, tinkering, and patching up these dwelhng-houses, 
garrets, basements, and stores. Such arrangements 
as have heretofore been, and now are, necessarily 
employed in meeting the immediate and pressing 
demands of the Department, can be learned from a' 
visit to, and personal inspection of the schools, and in 
this way only can the substantial facts be appreciated. 
Go to some of them, and examine these places where 
your children are packed ; into rooms, small, incon- 
venient, dark and damp, dingy, badly ventilated, and 
unhealthy ; where noise, and dirt, and disorder, are 
unavoidably the rule, and forced upon the teachers 
and pupils, whatever may be their better instincts or 
more refined sensibilities, and your comprehension of 
the case will be quickened. Visit some of these prem- 
ises, and coupled with other and almost insufferable 
inconveniences and disadvantages, find inadequate pro- 
vision, or, as in some cases, an entire absence of yards 
and out-buildings ; pupils in miserable little rooms 
opening directly and solely upon noisy and crowded 
thoroughfares, wherein, if at all, boys and girls alike, 
must seek their recreation. (And yet such are the best 
accommodations that can be obtained in various lo- 
calities.) The wickedness of longer permitting such a 
state of things to exist, will be but too evident to any 
one, however economically disposed such person may be. 
Probably no city or town in the State may be reproach- 
ed with having its school children accommodated in 
such disgraceful buildings and class-rooms, and with 
such miserable surroundings as several of those into 



STATEMENT. 37 

which are crowded the children of some of the Primary 
Schools of San Francisco. 

Neatness, cleanliness, and order, even common mor- 
ality — how can these habits be inculcated and enforced 
in such places ? How can decency, the ordinary pro- 
prieties, civility, or even self-respect — the very basis of 
personal improvement — be impressed upon young and 
susceptible minds under such unfavorable circumstances ? 
It is of course utterly impossible. We need, and there 
should at once be provided, a large number of ad- 
ditional buildings for the Primary Schools especially. 
This will be more evident and better understood from 
the following Table : 



38 



PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 



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ai ssssBio JO aequmil 


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s 


CI 


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in B96SBI0 JO aBqmnji 


CO • -(N -j-l-^OCTOOttlCO 




•?nani:)j['Bda(i 
9r[; Xq pauAvo sraooa 
ni UBjpnqO JO jaqranii 


3S :S :§g§gg3E: 


to" 


-ea ^q pajnga sraooa 
ni tiajpnqo JO Jeqninij 


O • -co .lOOrHOOOCO-* 
t- . • T-l • <Mt-r-l-*«r-( 


cf 


■snoi:j 
-'Bporaraoon'B looqos 


C^COOSi-IOOiHQOlOC^Ci CO O 

cqon«oi-*coc3s cocooo 


* 


■looqog Awe 
Sutpus^'B ^oa 'aSB jo 
BJtBSjf 8X pn^ 9 n93Ai:j 
-9q uajpiiqo jo jaqranji 


SoiCOlOOCOIN'J'tr-'-i'Omi 

rHCO CI coiocioo-*cq 




•siooqos 
ajBAUj Surpuai^'B '9Sb 

JO SJB9X 9 pUB f U99AV:j 

-9q n9jpnqo Jo jaqmnj^ 


0-*<OOT-l<0(MOr-4«5«0 
,H<N COlM->«<M-*<r«00t-CT 




■siooqog eiBATid Sm 
-PimO JO jaqranu iB^oj 


318 
625 
36 
516 
100 
236 
355 
754 
347 
1,301 
449 
413 


o 
lo" 


•8;ooqog onqn<i 3ni 
■pn9:j^B BH p9^jod9j nai 
-PimO JoaaqtnnuiB^ox 


603 
940 
84 
725 
122 
397 
703 
977 
546 
1^480 
662 
566 


00 


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ugjptiqo JO J9qnmj^ 


2,325 
3,592 

386 
2,683 

508 
1,546 
2,965 
4,177 
2,418 
6,082 
2,924 
2,388 


-* 


•agB JO sjB9iC f japnn 
najpnqo JO jgqumx 


889 

1,250 

165 

875 

176 

450 

1,087 

1,579 

983 

2,095 

1,017 

847 


5_ 


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U99Ai^9q U9apxiqo JO "OK 


Oi<D(M(NCOCOQOOt-COOSO 
<0C010C0C<5<N(Mt-00lMe0O 

(Mth CO CTC0-<n<r»t-»om 


in 

«" 


■a3B JO BJB9jt 8X PtiB 

f n99AV}9q uajpnqo 

^'i^^M JO agqninn ib:)ox 


1,436 ' 
2,342 

221 
1,808 

332 
1,096 
1,878 
2.598 
1,435 
3,987 
1,907 
1,541 


1 
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STATEMENT. 39 

It will be learned from the foregoing table, that in the 
month of August last, there were in the city, between 
the ages of six and eighteen years, 16,589 youth, of 
whom there were then attending Public Schools 7,805.* 

Returned as "attending Private Schools" 5,450 

Returned as " not attending any School " 4,565 

Returned as " between 4 and 6 years," (of whom 

604 were already "attending Private Schools)" 3,995 
" Applying for admission to Public Schools.".. 1,143 
Probably half, and possibly three-fourths, of 

these may have been admitted to new classes 

formed since the census returns were made, 

i. e. during the past six months. 
Public School Pupils, in rented rooms 2,768 

All can draw their own inference from these 
figures, as to the necessity of increasing our present 
Public School accommodations. There can be no dis- 
agreement as to the propriety and economy of erecting 
suitable buildings for those classes and schools now in 
rented rooms (2,768); and, since, even at present, about 
half of all the children and youth in the city, between 
the ages of six and eighteen, are attending Public 
Schools, we think provision should be made at least for 
one-half of those now between the ages of four and six 
years, all of whom will become pupils, and may become 
applicants, during the present and coming years. This 
would add to the above 1,997 ; and were good Pub- 
lic School accommodations secured, and our excel- 
lent system remain unimpaired, we doubt not that a 

* This number has been much increased since August, by the formation of 
several new classes in various parts of the city, from which cause the reported 
number of " applications " has also been greatly reduced. 



40 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT, 

large number of youth now in private schools, at high 
rates of tuition, would gladly enter Public Schools. But 
we will estimate this number as only one in five, 
say at 1,090. Though a very few pupils are leaving our 
schools at any time, and although a limited number an- 
nually graduate, we will suppose that the number who 
will leave and graduate this year, will equal the number 
now applying. We still have as a total of the above 
numbers, 5,855 ; to which, add the number now in the 
untenable Grreenwich Street School, 364, and those 
now in the small, miserable and inconvenient house on 
Tehama street, 290, and in the damp and dark basement 
of Rincon School, 120, and we have a grand total to be 
provided with suitable accommodations during the pres- 
ent and coming years, 6,629. 

We arrive at nearly the same results from another 
and entirely different calculation, from the census 
returns, thus : the number returned as attending Pub- 
lic Schools in August, 1864, was 6,561.* The returns 
this year made in the same month, (August,) 7,805.* 
Increase in one year 1,244, which increase is equal to 
about nineteen per cent. At this rate we should 
have, in one year from last August, 9,288 in the Public 
Schools, and in one year thereafter, (one and a half 
years hence,) 11,052; an excess of 3,247 over last Au- 
gust report. We have then this increase, 3,247, to be 
provided for ; also, those now in rented rooms, (2,768), 
(making a total of 6,015;) to which add, as before, the 
number at Greenwich street school, 364, and at the 

_ * Census returns always differ from school reports, showing attendance con- 
siderably less. This fact, however, will not affect our calculation, as we make it 
complete upon census returns alone, taking the returns of past years as a basis. 



STATEMENT. 41 

Tehama street school, 290, and in basement of Rincon 
school, 120, and we have 6,789, a number differing but 
little from that obtained by preceding calculation^ 
as a total for whom Public School accommodation 
should be secured. 

But the above computations are made upon the hy- 
pothesis that our progress hereafter will only be such as 
it has been heretofore, under the most unfavorable cir- 
cumstances — a mere forced increase. We therefore esti- 
mate that, to fully meet the requirements of the city, 
there should be provided this year, or as quickly as 
practicable, accommodations for somewhat more than 
the above number. 

Those in rented rooms at the present time 2,768 

For those in unsuitable houses and rooms belong- 
ing to the Department 774 

For those who would probably at once apply, if 
suitable buildings and good schools were secured, 
say 500 

For probable increase during the remainder of the 
present year, from all sources, say 800 



Total number requiring accommodations this year 4,842 



Total accommodations required for present and 

coming years 7, 342 

For probable increase next year, from all sources. 2,500 

To accommodate the above 4,842 pupils this year, will 
require about ninety class-rooms, or say twelve or more 
school houses of respectable capacity. 

The number of buildings required, will, of course, 



42 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

depend upon their size ; the cost, upon their character 
and style. These should be plain, yet good and sub- 
stantial 5 "absolutely perfect school houses," we can 
scarcely expect to secure, but suitable and respect- 
able ones we may hope for. Several of those required, 
may be constructed of wood, and at a cost of from 
$5,000 to $20,000 ; yet others, in consequence of 
the locations which they are expected to occupy, should, 
and perhaps must, be constructed of brick. These 
cannot be erected for less than from$ 25, 000 to $35,000. 
In regard to the number and character of school 
buildings now required, there may be some difference of 
opinion. Some have proposed the erection of a large 
number of wooden Primary School buildings, distributed 
throughout the city — not ten or twelve of tolerable 
.size — but some thirty or more very small houses of two 
to four rooms each. This would not be economy. To 
say nothing of the extremely imperfect classification, 
and more expensive instruction which this plan would 
involve, the sites of these numerous small buildings 
would inevitably cost more than the houses themselves. 
But a proper grading, the most economical and 
advantageous classification of pupils, so that suitable 
instruction and supervision can be given to the largest 
possible number of scholars, with the smallest possible 
number of teachers, and hence at the least possible ex- 
pense, requires concentration in larger schools. In 
such, instruction is facilitated, the advancement of pupils 
more even and rapid, and the cost of tuition per pupil 
found to decrease in proportion to the increased num- 
ber of the school. The complaints recently made 
by some against our large schools are not weU founded. 



STATEMENT. 4d 

We apprehend, however, that these complaints origi- 
nated rather from the expensiveness than the size of the 
buildings. The capacity of our largest school building, 
the Lincoln, is eighteen class rooms and a hall, with 
eighteen teachers, and 1,048 pupils. The Denman 
School has fourteen teachers, and 754 pupils. The 
average of the six other largest of our schools is about 
eight teachers, 500 pupils. How insignificant these fig- 
ures, as to numbers, compared with the ordinary Public 
Schools in many Eastern cities. [See Appendix.] 

Perhaps a better understanding of the nec3ssities of 
the School Department may be obtained from an exam- 
amination of the requirements of the several Districts 
in detail as hereafter set forth. [See Appendix.] 

For six or seven of the proposed buildings, sites 
must be provided, and these will cost from $8,000 to 
$15,000 each, according to size and location. (If pa- 
rents will consent to send their children further out from 
the heart of the city than at present, larger and cheaper 
lots, better and cheaper buildings, and more healthy 
locations can be secured.) But we do not perceive how 
all the schools now in rented premises, and such others 
as we must provide to meet the increasing wants of the 
city, can be secured, though ever so plain and econom- 
ical, for much if any less than 'the sum recently pro- 
posed by the Board of Education. 

Whether all the public school facilities now necessary, 
should be supplied at once, or during the coming year, is 
a question by itself, and to be considered. We think 
that immediate provisions, ample for all, would be the 
better policy — the best possible economy. 



44 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

Perhaps our city should be influenced somewhat by 
the example of other cities as to the support she should 
give her Public Schools. As the third commercial city 
in America, may she not with propriety emulate the 
noble deeds of her eastern rivals ? If so, these are 
facts which are worthy of attention. 

New York, the emporium of the East, educates 
85,000 children in her Public Schools, ten to twelve 
]3er cent of her population, at an annual cost, (last year) 
of $2,377,000, equal to about $2 50 per each inhabi- 
tant — equal to one-twelfth per cent, of total city ex- 
penditures. Her sister city, Brooklyn, of less commer- 
cial importance than San Francisco, educates 55,787 
children in Public Schools, or seventeen per cent, of her 
population, at a total cost of $303,784 00, or $1 07 
per each inhabitant. Chicago, the emporium of the 
"West, with a population of 178,000, educates 16,000 
in her Public Schools, a number equal to fourteen per 
cent, of her population, raising a school fund for that 
purpose amounting to $336,000, equal to $1 19 per 
each inhabitant. Boston, a city of wealth and refine- 
ment, but scarcely ranking San Francisco in population 
and commercial importance, educates 24,607 pupils in 
her excellent schools, equal to thirteen per cent, of her 
population, at a cost of $485,000 per annum, exclusive 
of buildings, or $2 52 per annum for each inhabitant, 
or thirteen per cent, of her total city tax. Baltimore, 
even under her recent misfortune, raises about $340,- 
000 per annum for her Public Schools, or $1 90 per 
each inhabitant. 

LEGISLATION REQUIRED. 

Legislative aid (State or municipal, or both,) is only 



STATEMENT. 45 

* 

necessary to enable us, to quickly and permanently 
improve the condition of our School Department, pro- 
viding means for our present necessities, comforta- 
ble a :d convenient houses for every school, and a seat 
for every pupil now, and for years to come, to be 
found in the city ; and this, too, without increasing the 
present rates of taxation except raising the required 
funds to continue the schools to the end of the present 
year. It may be done without going beyond our own 
resources or the addition of one mill to the tax now 
levied for school purposes. 

We now pay a monthly rent of $1,200 ; this sum 
is constantly increased, and for the present year must 
amount to $16,000. The alteration and improvement 
— the " repairs " required, chiefly upon our rented 
premises, but which would be unnecessary and avoided 
if the schools were in good buildings, cannot amount to 
less than $6,000 per annum, and probably double this 
sum would be the more correct calculation, and still less 
than heretofore annually expended in that way. 

We have in these two items at least $22,000 annually 
expended upon temporary school accommodations. This 
sum, (now paid from the current funds raised by the 35 
cent tax,) would pay the interest on about $250,000, a 
sum nearly if not quite sufficient to meet our immediate 
requirements. How then, can this money, be realized ? 
If by the issuing of bonds, the "repairs " and " rent" 
money now expended would meet the interest as it be- 
came due, and the schools in the mean time, without 
increased expense, would be enjoying the immense ad- 
vantages arising from the suitable accommodations. 
We venture a suggestion for payment of interest on 



46 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

proposed loan. The School Department is in possession 
of several very valuable and eligibly situated pieces of 
real estate, viz : One hundred vara lot, corner of 
Fourth and Harrison streets, the principal portion of 
which is unoccupied ; also an unoccupied lot 85x275 
feet on Market street, on the corner of Fifth street ; 
also, lot 115x275 feet on Eighth street near Bryant, 
Could not these pieces of property be judiciously rented 
for a term of years, for nearly sufficient to pay the above 
interest, thereby leaving for the current expenses about 
the above sum of $22,000 to add to current funds for 
the support of schools. 

But the above proposed bonds must ultimately be 
cancelled. From what source must the money be de- 
rived for that purpose ? Cannot the real estate just 
named and several other school lots* which are at pres- 
ent non-paying and unproductive property of the De- 
partment, (and which will probably never be required 
for school purposes, but which are constantly and rap- 
idly increasing in value,) be set apart by legislation, and 
sacredly devoted to the redemption of the proposed 
bonds at maturity, say in fifteen to twenty-five years ? 
At the expiration of that period this provision, if made, 
will unquestionably be found ample. Indeed, the first 

* Note. — The particular lots, which, in addition to the three valuable lots 
named, we would suggest to be devoted to this object, and which could be 
applied without detriment to the schools, are the following : 50 vara lot 
on Mission, opposite Thirteenth street ; also, 50 vara lot No. 2, in block 
62, Eddy street, near Polk, (2) ; also, 50 vara No. 5, in block 281, on 
Turk street, between Buchannan and Webster ; also, 50 vara No 2, in block 
136, on McAllister street, between Franklin and Gough ; also, 50 vara lot 
No. 663, N. E. corner of Taylor and Vallejo streets ; also, 50 vara lot No. 5. 
block 123, south side of Clay street, between Franklin and Gough streets. The 
lots enumerated, (and to these, others might be added if necessary,) would, even 
now, sell for nearly, if not quite, the requisite funds. What an abundant 
amount might be safely anticipated from the sale of these lots fifteen to twenty 
years hence ! 



STATEMENT. 47 

two lots named would undoubtedly at that time be found 
more than sufficient to pay the required sum. (See 
Schedule of school lots.) 

But, if it be thought unwise or unnecessary to 
issue bonds or otherwise effect a loan upon the real 
estate of the School Department — if it be thought bet- 
ter to sell our property at once, then we would say, let 
this policy be pursued, as was recently attempted by our 
Board. If allowed to apply this ready means of relief, 
we will have no difficulty in meeting the present emer- 
gencies of the Department, and slowly, yet, as we think, 
surely, providing for and meeting the future wants and 
contingencies of the School Department as they here- 
after arise, without calling for other help or aid, or in 
any manner increasing the present rate of taxation, for 
the support of the School Department ; it can, if per- 
mitted, subsist and prosper with a judicious application 
of its own resources. 

And with these ready and available means at our dis- 
posal, is it economy or sound policy, is it just to our- 
selves and to the present generation, to the thousands of 
children now claiming our protection and care, to 
withhold their immediate application ? Is it wisdom or 
justice to overlook the wants and pressing necessities of 
the living generation of children now looking to us, 
waiting for, and depending upon our action, to neg- 
lect to use and apply the means we now have, lest, 
forsooth, we interfere with, or jeopardize the abund- 
ant affluence of the next and succeeding generations 
— who will never thank us for our self-inflicted par- 
simony. Nor do we at all endanger the interests of 
the future, by judiciously providing for the wants of the 



48 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

present. The school interests of twenty-five years 
hence, aye, or of fifty years hence, even, will be vastly 
improved by judiciously developing, and nourishing the 
school interests of to-day ; laying broad and deep those 
foundations upon which our successors must build. 

If school lands are wanted for future generations, as 
they certainly will be, the city has innumerable fifty 
and hundred vara lots, broad acres of outside lands, 
which may, and should be set apart as a permanent 
endowment of our Public Free Schools. And while 
legislation is now being asked (for the settlement of 
outside land interests) should not this provision be 
made ; and should not, also, a small rate per cent, on 
the sale of all these city lands, be hereafter, devoted 
to school purposes, thus placing the Public School 
Department forever beyond the frequent annoying 
and discouraging embarrassments from which it has 
heretofore often been subjected, to its great injury, and 
which are now so seriously retarding the prosperity, 
and interfering with the usefulness and efficiency of our 
schools. An important suggestion in this connection 
is gained from remembering the present value to us of 
only two or three of our numerous school lots, so value- 
less only a few years since ; and, also, by observing 
the present and prospective financial condition of 
some of the benevolent institutions in our midst, (for 
example, the "Ladies' Protection and Relief Society,") 
which, from donations, a few years since, by single 
private individuals, of a few acres of the then "out- 
side" lands have been secured in such ample patri- 
mony, as in the future, and perhaps while time lasts, will 
enable them to shower their blessings upon the com- 
munity. 



STATEMENT, 49 

CONCLUSION. 

We will conclude by admitting, that, like most of 
the best institutions of civilization, the Free Public 
School System is expensive ; to support it, costs money. 
So, too. Police and Criminal Courts, State prisons, jails, 
Houses of Reform and Correction, Industrial Schools, 
and Aims-Houses are expensive ; (in California, espe- 
cially so,) but all these are found less and less 
necessary and expensive, wherever good Public Schools 
are most generally and generously supported. Civil 
government is very expensive ; but everywhere its ad- 
ministration seems to be cheapened, as well as aided, 
and improved, in proportion as public education is en- 
couraged. The entire governmental frame-work by 
which alone a civilized State or community exists, is in 
direct and delicate sympathy with the condition of 
general intelligence among the masses of the people ; is 
preserved and strengthened in all its parts ; rendered 
easy in its adjustment to the wants of the j)eople ; safer 
and cheaper in its administration, where free public in- 
struction is most encouraged and best supported. No 
community in our country, at the present day, can 
afford to dispense with the best system of Public 
Schools which the experience of the past, or the intel- 
ligence of the present day, can possibly suggest. Capi- 
talists should not be insensible; and some of the large 
real estate holders, the owners of the numerous unoccu- 
pied fifty and hundred vara lots about our city, and the 
owners of those extensive tracts of "outside lands," 
seem to have too little conception as to what gives the 
present, and ensures the great prospective value of their 
property. These persons seem to have lost sight of, and 



50 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

forgotten the undeniable fact, that the superior Pubhc 
Schools of San Francisco, their early establishment and 
continued prominence, and the scattering of their 
reports all over the civilized world, has drawn to us 
the better portion of our population, and largely tended 
to make San Francisco what she is to-day. A repeti- 
tion of her disastrous conflagrations and earthquakes, 
though fearful they may be, will be less ruinous to her 
future prosperity, than the degradation of the Public 
School System. 

A wise forecast for the best interest of our future 
society and the country — every principle of sound 
political economy— every dictate of philanthrophy and 
patriotism points us to, and urges a nurturing watch, 
full care, a warm and generous support of our system 
of free education, that it may continue to shower its 
inestimable blessings upon the present generation, and 
secure the enlightenment, social and moral progress 
and happiness of those who will follow us. 

From the foregoing review of the facts it is obvious, 
that to meet the present emergencies of the School De- 
partment, and to protect future interests requires 

LEGISLATION. 

1st. To provide for the deficiency of the present 
year, enabling the Board of Education to continue the 
schools to the end of the present term, (June 30th.) 

2d. Providing for the necessary increase in the pres- 
ent limited school accommodations of the Public School 
Department. 

And, finally, we earnestly recommend the Legislature 
to retain the Special School Act of April 27th, 1863, 



STATEMEl^T. 



61 



as amended by the Act of March 16th, 1864, in its 
present form, unamended and unchanged, inasmuch as 
we beUeve this Act capable of providing for the wants 
and necessities, and regulating the management of the 
Department. 

Respectfully, 

Your obedient servants, 



Jos. W. WlNANS, 

H. T. Graves, 
W. A. Grover, 
Geo. C. Hickox, 
J. C. Pelton. 



Committee of 
Board of 
Education. 



^PPEITDIX 



The necessities of the different Districts will be found set forth in 

detail as follows : 

FIRST DISTRICT. 

STATISTICS. 

The present school accommodations of the First District are, 

Belonging to the Department, 
One brick school house, erected in 1854, having nine class rooms, 
seating 514 pupils, and 

Rented by the Department, 
Three houses, having thirteen class rooms, containing ItO pupils. 

j Bequirements. 

The immediate and prospective requirements of this District may 
be estimated from the foregoing statement of pupils in rented and 
very unsuitable rooms, for which $335 is the monthly rent, and 
from the following statistics : 

Census Returns. — (Canvass made in July and August.) 

No. applying for school accommodations , 22 

No. attending no School , , 161 

No. attending private schools 318 

No. between the ages of 4 and 6 years , 269 

Total requiring accommodations during present and coming 

year, including pupils in rented rooms 1,000 

From the foregoing we estimate the necessities of this District, 
as follows : 

For those returned as applying we make no allowance ; this number 
we consider canceled throughout the city by the number who will 
leave school and graduate during the year. 

For one-fifth of those out of school 32 

For one-fifth of those in private schools 63 



APPENDIX. 53 

For one-half of those between 4 and 6 years 134 

For those now in rented premises 170 

Total, 990 pupils, requiring- about twenty class rooms in one 
or two buildings. We would say, at present, one large building-, 
both as a matter of economy and as affording a better classification 
of pupils. This building might contain at first but fourteen or six- 
teen class rooms, but so constructed as to be conveniently enlarged 
when found necessary. 

The above accommodations suggested for this District, will prob- 
ably be sufficient for many years, for before they will become inad- 
equate, the city will, doubtless, vacate the present City Hospital 
building — formerly a school house, erected by school building funds 
— and return it to the Department, This will be a great accession 
to the school accommodations of that portion of the city, and prob- 
ably supply all its demands for the next ten years or more. 

SECOND DISTRICT. 

STATISTICS. 

The present school accommodations of the Second District are, 
Belonging to the Department, 

One brick school house, having six class rooms, seating 364 
pupils. 

The report of the Director of the Second District, in which we 
fully concur, as to the condition of his School and the wants of the 
District says: a new building is required, or repairs upon the present 
one, nearly equaling the cost of new improvements. 

Census Returns, 
No. applying for school accommodatioas 103 

No. out of school 333 To be provided for 66 

No. attending private schools 625 do do 125 

No. between the ages of 4 and 6 years 436 do do 218 

Total requiring accommodations during present and coming 

year, including those now in old building 773 

The Requirements 

Of this District we estimate by the foregoing calculation, same 
as employed in reference to the First District, to be as follows: 

New accommodations for 500 pupils, requiring eight new class 
rooms so constructed as to be conveniently enlarged when found 
necessary. 



54 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

THIRD DISTRICT. 

STATISTICS. 

No. applying for school accommodations . . 39 

No. out of School 38 To be provided for *l 

No. attending private schools . 36 do do 1 

No. between the ages of 4 and 6 years. ... 52 do do 26 

Total requiring accommodations — one class 50 

We believe that the children of this District should attend school 
in adjoining Districts ; most should go to the schools of the Fourth 
District, in which provision should be made for them. Building in 
the Third District, in the heart of the city would be expensive ; the 
lot would cost more than a building of the requisite capacity ; 
beside, the best location that could be secured would be adjacent to 
warehouses and factories, and upon crowded and noisy streets. 

FOURTH DISTRICT. 

STATISTICS. 

The present school accommodations of the Fourth District are, 

Belonging to the Department, 

Two wooden school houses, having ten class rooms, seating 582 

pupils. 

Rented by the Department. 

Two rooms in Jewish church, seating 123 pupils. 
Census Returns. 

No. applying for school accommodations 61 

No. out of school 252 To be provided for 50 

No. attending private schools 515 do do 103 

No. between the ages of 4 and 6 years 332 do do 166 

Total requiring accommodations, (includ- 
ing those in rented rooms, and includ- 
ing 55, or one class from Third Dis- 
trict,) about 374 

The Requirements 
Of this District as shown by the foregoing, we estimate to be as 

follows : Four to six new class rooms in one building, (for Fourth 

and Third Districts.) 

In this District the School Department have a lot which could be 

graded for from $3,500 to $4,000 



APPENDIX. 55 

FIFTH DISTRICT. 

STATISTICS. 

No, applying- for school accommodations . 28 

No. out of school 90 To be provided for 18 

No. attending private schools 100 do do 20 

No. between the ages of 4 and 6 years.. . 36 do do 18 

Total to be provided for 56 

The children of this District, we believe, shoidd hereafter be 
received in the schools of other districts, as at present. Most should 
be provided for in the Seventh and Eighth Districts. The circum- 
stances of the Fifth District are similar to those stated in refer- 
ence to the Third District. We think no school building, for the 
present, need be erected therein. 

SIXTH DISTRICT. 

STATISTICS. 

The present school accommodations for the Sixth District, are: 

Belonging to the Department, 
Two wooden buildings, having 12 class rooms, seating 486 
pupils. 

Rented by the Department, 

One room, seating 35 pupils. (Chinese school.) 
Census Returns. 
No. applying for school accommodations. 41 

No. out of school 31 To be provided for. 7 

No. attending private schools 236 do do 41 

No. between the ages of 4 and 6 years. . . .223 do do 111 

Total requiring school accommodations, about 160 

The Requirements 
Of this dihitrict, as shown by the foregoing, we estimate to be as 
follows : 

A school lot and house, with 4 class-rooms. 
SEVENTH DISTRICT. 

STATISTICS. 

The present school accommodations for the Seventh District, are: 



56 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

Belonging to the Department. 

One wooden school house, having 5 class rooms, seating 290 
pupils. House worthless — almost untenable. 
Rented by the Department, 

One brick building, having 4 class rooms, seating 260 pupils. 
Census Returns, 
No. applying for school accommodations . 38 

No. out of school 321 To be provided for 65 

No. attending private schools 355 do do 11 

No. between the ages of 4 and 6 years. .328 do do 164 

Total requiring accommodation during present and coming 
year, including those in rented rooms 590 

The requirements of this district, as shown by the foregoing, we 
estimate to be as follows: 

Improvements and enlargement of lot owned by the Department, 
and a house of 11 or 12 class-rooms. Many pupils of this dis- 
trict, in addition to the above, now attend schools in the 10th 
district — that on Stevenson street, and in the Ninth — Rincon school. 

EIGHTH DISTRICT^. 

STATISTICS. 

The present school accommodations of the Eighth District, are. 

Belonging to the Department, 

One brick school house having fifteen class rooms, seating 186 

pupils. 

One ditto having four class rooms, seating 106 pupils. 

One wooden school house having four class rooms, seating 244 

pupils. 

Rented by the Department, 

One brick school house, having four class rooms, seating 216 
pupils. 

One wooden building, having six class rooms, seating 425 pupils. 
Census Returns. 
No. applying for school accommodations 95 

No. out of school 544 To be provided for 108 

No. attending private schools 154 do do 150 

No. between the ages of 4 and 6 years. 410 do do 235 

Total in rented rooms, and others requiring additional accom- 
modations during the present and coming year, at least. . . . 1,194. 



APPENDIX. 57 

The Requirements 
Of this District, as shown by the foregoing', we estimate to be as 
follows : At least twenty class rooms in two buildings, for which 
sites must be purchased, the Department having none unoccupied in 
this District. It should be further stated in reference to the press- 
ing necessities of this District, that we are daily expecting to be 
compelled to vacate one large rented building in consequence of pro- 
jected improvements by the proprietors. 

NINTH DISTRICT. 

STATISTICS. 

The present school accommodations for the Ninth District, are, 

Belonging to the Department, 
One wooden house, having ten class rooms, (two in dark base- 
ment unsuitable for use,) seating 488 pupils. 
Rented by the Department, 
One wooden house, having one class room, seating 60 pupils. 
One ditto having one class room, seating 18 pupils. 

Census Returns. 
No. applying for School accommodations 208 

No. out of school 216 To be provided for. 55 

No. attending private schools 341 do do 69 

No. between the ages of 4 and 6 years . 281 do do 143 

Requiring accommodations during present and coming year, 
including those now in basement of Rincon School, (120), .... 405. 
The Requirements 

Of this District, as shown by the foregoing, we estimate to be as 
follows: A school lot and house of eight class rooms, although 
a house of less capacity would do for the present, (in this Dis_ 
trict,) as most of those in the three large private schools in this Dis- 
trict would probably remain in them, and those now in basement of 
Rincon School could remain therein for the present. 

TENTH DISTRICT. 

STATISTICS. 

The present school accommodations for the Tenth District, are: 

Belonging to the Department, 
One brick school house, having 18 class-rooms, seating 955 
pupils. 



58 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

One wooden building, having 8 class-rooms, (4 occupied by State 
Normal school), seating 248 pupils. 

Rented by the Department, 
One wooden house, having 8 class-rooms, seating 428 pupils. 
One wooden house, having 1 class-room, seating 35 pupils. 

Census Returns. 

No. applying for school accommodations. 39 

No. out of school 818 To be provided for. 

No. attending private schools 1301 do do 260 

No. between the ages of 4 and 6 years. . . 123 do do 361 

Total requiring school accommodations during present 
and coming year, including those in rented rooms, about. . . . 1,260 
The Requirements 

Of the district, as shown by the foregoing estimate, are estimated 
to be as follows: 

At present, one school lot, and building of 12 to 14 class-rooms, so 
constructed as to be conveniently enlarged when found necessary. 

ELEVENTH DISTRICT. 

Statistics. 
The present school accommodations for the Eleventh District, are: 

Belonging to the Department, 
Four wooden school houses, having 10 class-rooms, seating 585 
pupils. 

Rented by the Department, 

Two wooden houses, having 5 class-rooms, seating 291 pupils. 

Census Returns. 

No. applying for school accommodations . . 388 To be provided for. 

No. out of school 450 do do 90 

No. attending private schools 440 do do 88 

No. betwesn the ages of 4 and 6 years. . . . 530 do do 269 

To be provided for, including those in rented rooms, about 140. 

Requirements. 
We estimate the requirements, as shown by the foregoing, to be 
as follows: 

A building on school lot on Bryant street, between Tenth and 
Eleventh streets, having 8 or 10 class-rooms. Also, a small house 



APPENDIX. 59 

of one class-room, in the vicinity of the "Ocean House." Also, an 
addition to Mission school house, four class-rooms. The latter may, 
perhaps, be delayed till next year. 

TWELFTH DISTRICT. 

STATISTICS. 

The present school accommodations of the Twelfth District, are. 

Belonging to the Department, 
Three wooden houses, having in all eight class rooms, seating 4t1 

pupils. 

Rented by the Department, 

Three wooden houses, one class room each, seating in all 144 

pupils. 

Census Returns. 

No. applying for school accommodations 80 To be provided for 

No. out of school 23T do do 47 

No. attending private schools 413 do do 82 

No. between the ages of 4 and 6 years .300 do do 150 

Total to be provided for, this and coming years, including those in 
rented rooms, about 463, most of whom, however, in a very short 
time, will be accommodated by the completion of the new school 
building having five class rooms, on Broadway near Larkin. 

Requirements, 

As shown by the foregoing, we estimate to be as follows : An 
enlargement of one of the present houses by one class room; and 
probably next year it will be necessary to erect a small house be- 
yond or in the vicinity of " Lone Mountain Cemetery." 

This calculation of the wants of the city, by Districts in detail, 
gives a slight excess over our previous calculations; but we be- 
lieve the foregoing calculation to be more correct ; for in this, we 
anticipate a sufficient and suitable supply of good buildings for all 
the schools, and as a consequence a wholesome and reasonable 
increase in the number of those who, when respectable accommo- 
dations are provided, will gladly avail themselves of the superior 
advantages of excellent /ree Public Schools. 



ARCHITECT'S REPORT. 



San Francisco, January 23, 1866. 

To the Honorable, the. Board of Education 

of the City and County of San Francisco : 

In conformity with your request that I should submit to your 
body a report of the cost of all the Public School buildings and 
works done under my charge, for the Department, I have the honor 
to state that my connection with the School Department dates from 
October, 1860. My knowledge of the days, dates, and expenditures 
upon the Public School property of San Francisco, with the attend- 
ant expenses, is as follows : 

In the month of February, 1861, a new frame school house was 
erected at the corner of Fifth and Market streets, at a cost of 
$8,399.94, with proper conveniences and accommodations for teach- 
ers and 304 pupils. 

In the month of June of the same year, another frame school build- 
ing with a brick foundation, was erected on the corner of Mason and 
Washington streets, at a cost of $17,111, with like accommoda- 
tions for teachers, and 468 pupils. 

In the same month and year alterations and repairs were made in 
connection with the Powell Street School, at an expense of $690, 
adapting it to school purposes, with accommodations for teachers 
and 258 pupils. 

In the month of August,, 1862, a frame school building was com- 
pleted in Hayes' Valley at a cost of $4,130.25, with accommoda- 
tions for teachers and 104 pupils. 

In the month of September of the same year, a brick wall and 
fences were erected around a portion of the grounds belonging to 
the Mason and Washington Street School, at an expense of $646, 
the same being required by the grade of the latter street and the- 
adjoining property. 

In the months of October and November, of the same year, a 



APPENDIX. 61 

frame addition, with walls and fences, were erected in connection 
with the Powell Street School, at a cost of $2,495, giving the same 
accommodations for teachers and 344 pupils. 

In March, 1863, the Mission School building was raised, and a 
brick basement with a frame story built under it, at a cost of 
$5,833, giving that building additional accommodations for teachers 
and 198 pupils. 

In the month of May of the same year, alterations, additions, 
and repairs were made in connection with the Fourth and Clary 
Street School at a cost of $3,925.50, giving accommodations for 
teachers and 346 pupils. 

In the month of April, 1864, a frame school building was erected 
on Broadway street, (commonly known as the colored school,) at a 
cost of $4,435.24, with accommodations for teachers and 120 pupils. 

In the month of May, of the same year, the frame school build- 
ing at the corner of Fifth and Market streets, now used as the 
State Normal School building, was removed to the rear of the lot 
belonging to the Department, and a brick foundation added. This 
was done to make room for the present site of the Lincoln school 
house, at a cost of $1,400. 

In the month of July, of the same year, there was expended for 
necessaiy alterations and repairs in connection with the Union 
Street School $1,734. 

In the same month and year the Denman School at the corner of 
Bush and Taylor streets, was erected at an expense of $52,864.35, 
with proper accommodations for teachers and 960 pupils. 

In the month of August of the same year, a frame school build- 
ing was erected on Utah street, Potrero, at a cost of $3,511.25, 
with accommodations for a teacher and 60 pupils. 

In the month of September of the same year, $1,260 were ex- 
pended for fitting up and furnishing the present rooms of the Board 
of Education ; also, $783 for the building of a bulkhead in front of 
the Greenwich Street School property. 

In the month of February, 1865, a frame school house was erected 
at the corner of Kentucky and Napa streets, Potrero, at a cost of 
$2,180.15, with accommodations for a teacher and 60 pupils. 



62 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

In March of the same year, alterations and repairs were made in 
connection with the Boys' High School building, at a cost of 
11,247.25. 

In July of the same year, the Lincoln School on Fifth street, near 
Market, was completed at a cost of $93,949.53, with ample accom- 
modations for teachers and 1,440 pupils. 

In September of the same year, a frame addition was built to the 
Hayes' Valley School, at a cost of $2,67175, by which that build- 
ing was rendered capable of accommodating teachers and 192 
pupils. 

In the month of October of the same year, two frame school 
buildings, each capable of accommodating a teacher and 60 pupils, 
were erected ; one on Chenery street, Fairmount Tract, at a cost of 
$2,698.50 ; the other on Pine street, between Scott and Devisidero 
streets, Western Addition, at a cost of $2,167.84. 

The foregoing shows an aggregate expenditure for the purposes 
mentioned, during the said period of five years, amounting to 
$214,201.55. 

During the past year the city of Boston appropriated the sum of 
$600,000 exclusively for the erection of new school buildings, not- 
withstanding her numerous substantial and beautiful structures, 
previously erected for the same purpose. For several years past, 
that city has expended from $300,000 to $600,000 annually for the 
erection of Common School buildings. One of them, the Prescott 
School building, erected in South Boston during the present year 
cost over $100,000. 

The people of San Francisco have not been wearied by expend- 
ing $214,201.55 for her Public School buildings during the past five 
years, as it is less than one-fourth of the $943,796.57^ which has 
been audited and paid out of the city treasury during the same pe- 
riod for School Fund expenses, exclusive of interest and sinking 
fund, when the city referred to, with but a slight advance upon her 
population, sets apart over half a million annually for similar build, 
ing purposes. 

(See the Exhibit on the following page.) 



APPENDIX. 



63 



TTie following is a recapitulaiion of the foregoing work, and expense 
incurred in connection ivith the same, under the direction of the 
Board of Education of this City : 



LOCATION or WORKS. 


a 
§ 

a 


2 
B 

§ 
p< 

X 


a 




Character of Work. 


Fifth and Market streets . . 
Mason and Washington sts 


Feb'y,1861 
June, 1861 
June, 1861 
Aug., 18fi2 
Sept., 1862 
Oct'r, 1862 
Nov'r,1862 
Mar., 1863 
May, 1863 
April, 1864 
May, 1864 
July, 18';4 
July, 1864 
Aug., 1864 
Sept., 1864 
Sept., 1864 
Feb'y,1865 
Mi.r., I860 
July, 1865 
Sept., 1865 
Oct'r, 1865 
Oct'r, 1865 


$8,399 94 

17,117 OU 

690 00 

4,130 25 

646 UU 

1,700 00 

795 00 

5,883 Oil 

3,925 50 

4,435 24 

1,400 00 

1,734 00 

52,864 35 
3,517 25 
1,260 00 
783 00 
2,180 15 
1,247 25 

93,949 53 
2,677 75 
2,698 50 
2,167 84 


304 

468 
258 
104 

'86 

198 
346 
120 

960 
60 

'eo 

1440 
88 
60 
60 


Xevv frame building, etc. 
do. do. do. 






Mason and Washington sts 


New walls, fences, etc. 




New wall, fences, etc. 






Fourth and Clary streets . . 
Colored Scnool, Broadway. 
Fifth and Market streets . . 


Alterations, additions, and repairs. 
New frame building, etc. 
Removing building. 
Alterations and repairs. 
New brick building, etc. 


Bush and Taylor streets . . 


City HaU 








Kentucky and Napa sts . . . 

Boys' High School 

Fifth street, near Market. . 
Hayes' Valley. 


New frame building. 
Alterations and repairs. 
New brick building, etc. 
New addition, etc. 






Pine St., Western Addition 


do. do. do. 






$214,201 55 











Respectfully submitted, 



William Craine. 



Note.— This sum does not, of course, include Street Work nor General Repairs ; a very large 
annual expenditure, which will be increased, rather than diminished, whUe the department 
is compelled to occupy temporary and unsuitable buildings. 



REAL ESTATE OF SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL DEPARTMENT. 



Lots Deeded by Commissioners of Funded Debt. 

*Fifty vara No. 301, corner of Bush and Stockton streets. 
Fifty vara No. 462, corner of Kearny and Filbert streets. 
Fifty vara No. 663, corner of Vallejo and Taylor streets. 
*One hundred vara No. 128, corner of Market and Fifth streets. 
*One hundred vara No. 114, corner Harrison and Fourth streets. 

Lots Obtained by Exchange. 

Part of one hundred vara No. 274, 115 feet on Eighth street by 
275 feet deep ; received in exchange for one hundred vara No. 258, 
corner Folsom and Seventh streets. 

*Inner portion of one hundred vara No. 76, fronting on Vassar 
Place (Harrison, near Second street), 100 feet by 180 feet, received 
in exchange for fifty vara No. 732, corner of Fremont and Harrison 
streets. 

*Fifty vara No. 482, on Greenwich street ; received in exchange 
for fifty vara No. 695, corner of Stockton and Francisco streets. 

Lots Obtained by Purchase. 

*Part of fifty vara No. 1,320, 971 feet on Bush street by 137^ 
feet on Hyde street. 

*One-half of fifty vara No. 159-,-on Powell street, near Jackson. 

*One-half of fifty vara No. 121, on Powell street, near Clay. 

*Fifty vara No. 602, corner of Mason and Washington streets. 

*Pifty vara No. 418, on Union street, near Montgomery. 

*Lot on Mission street (200 feet by 182 feet), in Block 35. 

*Fifty vara No. 1,023, corner of Bush and Taylor streets. 

*Lot on Broadway street (69| feet by 119§ feet), portion of fifty 
vara lot on north-west corner of Powell street. 

*Lot on Tehama street (90 by 75 feet), numbered on the official 
map of the City of San Francisco, as lots Nos. 46 and 47 of the 
Hundred Vara Survey. 



APPENDIX. 65 

Lots Obtained by Donation. 

Nos. 11 and 12, in Block No. 15, Fainnoimt Tract. 

*Nos. 13, 14, 15, 16, 26, 27, and 28, in Block No. 85, Potrero 
Nuevo. 

*No. 4, in Block No. 23, Bernal Ranch, West End Map, six miles 
out. County road. 

(100 feet by 100 feet), south-west corner of Kentucky and Napa 
streets — Potrero. 50 feet by 100 feet adjoining, purchased by 
the Board. 

Lot on Vermont street (120 feet by 200 feet), being- a portion of 
Block No. 127, Potrero Nuevo. 

Lot on Bernal Ptanch (80 feet by 180), designated on West End 
Map No. 2, as lot No. 4, Block No. 27. 

Lots Obtained by Van Ness Ordinance. 

MISSION BLOCKS. 

Fifty vara lot in Block No. 8. 
Fifty vara lot in Block No. 21. 
Fifty vara lot in Block No. 34. 
Fifty vara lot in Block No. 61. 
Fifty vara lot in Block No. 93. 
Fifty vara lot in Block No. 104. 

WESTERN ADDITION. 

*Fifty vara lot No. 2, in Block No. 3. 
Fifty vara lot No. 6, in Block No. 14. 
Fifty vara lot No. 5, in Block No. 21. 
Fifty vara lot No. 5, in Block No. 29. 
Fifty vara lot No. 2, in Block No. 62. 
Fifty vara lot No. 5, in Block No. 111. 
Fifty vara lot No. 5, in Block No. 117. 
Fifty vara lot No. 5, in Block No. 123. 
Fifty vara lot No. 2, in Block No. 136. 
Fifty vara lot No. 2, in Block No. 158. 
Fifty vara lot No. 5, in Block No. 281. 
Fifty vara lot No. 5, in Block No. 289. 
Fifty vara lot No. 2, in Block No. 318. 
Fifty vara lot No. 2, in Block No. 325. 



66 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

Fifty vara lot No. 6, in Block No. 3U. 
Fifty vara lot No. 2, in Block No. 419. 
Fifty vara lot No. 2, in Block No. 431. 
Fifty vara lot No. 2, in Block No. 460. 
Fifty vara lot No. 2, in Block No. 465. 

POTRERO NUEVO. 

Lot in Blopk No. 39— (100 feet by 200 feet). 
Lot in Block No. 46— (100 feet by 200 feet). 
Lot in Block No. 163— (100 feet by 200 feet). 



Note. — Lots marked with an * are occupied by school-liouses ; those not marked are 
vacant. 



COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. 



PEIMARY DEPARTMENT. 

TENTH GRADE. 

Oral Instruction. — Embracing lessons on common things ; on 
form, color, flowers, animals, morals and manners. Two or more 
lessons a day, each from five to eight minutes long. 

Repeating verses and maxims, singly and in concert. 

Reading. — From blackboard and from charts, with exercises in 
spelling, both by letters and by sounds. Two or more lessons a 
day. 

Counting. — From one to one hundred. Simple exercises in ad- 
ding, with use of numeral frame, pebbles, beans, etc. Reading at 
sight numbers through three figures (999), and writing figures on 
slates as far as one hundred. Drawing on the slate, imitating let- 
ters, figures, and other objects from blackboard sketches by the 
teacher, from cards, tablets, charts, and other copies. Printing the 
reading and spelling lessons, and the numerals, as far as learned. 
Two or more exercises a day. (All pupils should be provided with 
slates and pencils.) 

* Boston Primary School Tablets. — Numbers 1, 2, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 
15, and 16, to be used. 

The recitations in this grade should never exceed twenty minutes 
in length. In ordinary lessons fifteen minutes will be time enough, 
and in some lessons ten minutes. 

NINTH GRADE. 

Oral Instruction. — Embracing lessons on parts, form, and colors, 
illustrated by common objects ; on animals, mostly those with which 



* Wiilson's School Charts may be substituted in any primary class for the Boston Primary 
School Tablets; in such case the use of the Charts must conform as nearly as possible to that 
prescribed for the Tablets. 



68 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORTS. 

the children are ah'eady familiar; morals and manners; miscella- 
neous topics. Two or more lessons a day, each from five to ten min- 
utes long. 

Verses and maxims, 

Reading and Spelling. — Blackboard exercises continued. Eead- 
ing charts reviewed. Primer completed. 

Spelling. — Both by letters and sounds. The exercises in both 
reading- and spelling to be heard twice a day. 

Counting. — From one to a hundred, forward and backward. 
Reading and writing Arabic numbers to 50. Addition tables from 
blackboard to 4-|-10, forward and backward, in course; also, by 
taking any of the numbers irregularly; with use of numeral frame, 
beans, pebbles, etc. Extemporaneous exercises in adding series of 
small numbers. Roman numerals to L, both in course and out of 
course. Numeration commenced and extended through six figures 
(100,000); writing figures on slates as far as thousands. 

Exercises at least twice a day with slate and pencil, using 
drawing cards, plain figures, pictures on the blackboard, and other 
copies; and printing lessons in spelling, numerals, etc. 

Primary School Tablets. — Review the exercises prescribed for the 
Tenth Grade, and use numbers 6, 14, and 19. 

EIGHTH GRADE. 

Oral Imtruction. — Parts; size; general qualities; color; animals; 
plants ; trades and professions ; morals and manners ; miscellaneous 
topics. Two or more oral exercises a day, each from five to twelve 
minutes long. 

Verses and maxims. 

Primer Reviewed. — Willson's First Reader to page 50, read and 
reviewed, with punctuation, definitions, and illustrations. Short 
daily drill in enunciating the vowels and consonants, and their 
combinations. Spelling the column of words, and words selected 
from the reading lessons, both by letters and by sounds. 

Drawing and Printing. — Two or moi-e exercises a day with slate 
and pencil, or paper and pencil, using blackboard sketches pre- 
pared by the teacher, when practicable, drawing cards, pictures, 
and various figures from books and cards, etc. Printing lessons 
in spelling and arithmetic. 

Addition table completed; thoroughly and constantly illustrated 



APPENDIX. 69 

and applied. Extemporaneous exercises in adding series of num- 
bers. Reading and writing Roman numerals to one hundred, for- 
ward and backward in course; also, irregularly. 

Numeration through 100,000,000; and writing figures on slates 
as far as millions. 

Primary School Tablets. — Review numbers, 5, 6, 11, 13; and learn 
12, 20, n, and 18. 

SEVENTH GRADE. 

Oral Instruction. — Form; size; genex-al qualities; weight; color; 
animals; the five senses; common things; miscellaneous topics; 
morals and manners. Two or more oral exercises a day, each 
from seven to fifteen minutes long. 

Willson's First Reader completed and reviewed, with punctua- 
tion, definitions and illustrations. Second Reader commenced. Short 
daily drill ia enunciating the vowels and consonants, and the r com 
binations. 

Spelling, both by letters and by sound, from smaller Speller and 
from reading lessons. 

Drawing and Printing. — Two or more lessons a day, using draw- 
ing cards, pictures, and various figures from books and cards, etc. 
Printing lessons in spelling and arithmetic. 

Eaton's Primary Arithmetic commenced. 

Subtraction table completed, and multiplication to 5x10, with use 
of numeral frame, beans, pebbles, etc., and other practical applica- 
tions. Extemporaneous exercises in adding and subtracting series 
of numbers. Reading and writing Roman numerals to 500, for- 
ward and backward in course, also out of course. 

Numeration and notation as in the Eighth Grade. 

Primary School Tablets. — Review numbers 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 
and 20; learn numbers 3 and 18. 

SIXTH GRADE. 

Oral Instruction. — Form; animals; trees and plants; foreign pro- 
ductions ; miscellaneous topics ; common things ; manners and mor- 
als. Two or more oral exercises a day, each from eight to fifteen 
minutes long. 

Beading. — Willson's Second Reader to page 125; and reviewed 
with punctuation, definitions, and illustrations. Frequent exer- 
cises in enunciating the elementary sounds, separately and in their 
combinations. 



70 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

Spelling, both by letters and by sounds, with definitions from 
smaller Speller and from reading lessons. 

Drawing, writing, etc., with slate and pencil, using drawing 
cards, cuts from books, and other copies ; writing the large and 
small letters of the alphabet in plain and script hand, using blank 
books. 

Eaton's Primary xirithmetic completed, with constant illustrations 
and applications besides those in the text-book. 

Extemporaneous exercises in combining series of numbers. Ro- 
man numbers reviewed, and numeration and notation continued. 

Abbreviations. 

School Tablets. — Review numbers 3, 5, 6, 11, 12, and 18 ; study 
number 1. 

FIFTH GRADE. 

Oral Instruction. — Form; color; common things; trees, plants, 
etc.; animals; shells; miscellaneous topics; morals and manners. 
Two or more oral exercises a day, each from ten to twenty minutes 
long. 

Cornell's Primary Geography to page 44, with map drawing. 

Beading. — Wilson's Second Reader completed and reviewed. 
Third Reader commenced, with punctuation, definitions and illus- 
trations. Frequent exercises in enunciating the elementary sounds 
and their combinations. 

Spelling, both by letters and by sounds, with definitions from 
smaller Speller and from reading lessons. 

Sentence making, written abstracts, etc. , , 

Drawing, writing, etc., with slate or lead pencil; writing with 
ink in script hand in copy books. 

Colb urn's First Part to page It. Multiplication Table extended 
to 12X12, and division 144-^12 in course and out of course. Ex- 
temporaneous exercises in combining series of numbers. Reading 
and writing Arabic and Roman numerals to 10,000, 

Slate and blackboard exercises in adding numbers, examples of 
three or four columns each. 

Abbreviations reviewed. 

Declamations and recitations. 

School Tablets. — Review those used in Sixth Grade. Frequent 
drill on number 12; study number 8. 



APPENDIX. 71 

GEAMMAR DEPARTMENT. 



FOURTH GRADE. 

Oral Instruction. — Sound ; light ; water ; meteorology ; miscel- 
laneous topics ; morals and manners. 

Cornell's Primary Geography completed and reviewed, with map 
drawing and use of outline maps. 

Grammar. — Greene's Introduction, through Part First; all the 
exercises to be written on the slate or blackboard, with full exer- 
cises in correcting false syntax. 

Construction of sentences, etc. 

Third Reader completed with punctuations, definitions, and illus- 
trations, and spelling by sounds. 

Written»and oral spelling, with definitions from Willson's Larger 
Speller, and from reading lessons. 

Drawing. — Burgess' Introduction. 

Writing. — In such books as the Board may approve. 

Colburn's First Part to page 123 and reviewed. Slate arithmetic 
and extemporaneous exercises in combining series of numbers. 

Declamations and recitations. 

THIRD GRADE. 

Oral Instruction. — Historical sketches ; air and water ; morals 
and manners ; familiar exercises in grammar, embracing the parts 
of speech and construction of sentences. 

Geography. — Cornell's Grammar School, to page 64, and reviewed 
(Physical Geography omitted), with map drawing and use of out- 
line maps. 

Grammar. — Greene's introduction as far as Syntax, and Part 
First reviewed, with lessons in the use of language. 

Fourth Reader, to page 111, with punctuation, definitions, and 
illustrations, and elementaiy sounds. 

Written and oral spelling, with definitions, from Larger Speller, 
and from reading lessons. 

Writing. — In such books as the Board may approve. 

Colburn's First Part to page 159 and reviewed. Slate arithmetic 
to addition of denominate numbers and reviewed. 

Rapid exercises in adding columns of figures. 



72 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

Extemporaneous exercises in combining- series of numbers. 
Declamations and recitations. 

SECOND GRADE. 

Oral Instruction. — Properties of matter ; physiology and hygiene ; 
morals and manners. 

Grammar. — Greene's Elements ; the course in this is limited to 
the large type, with oral and written exercises. 

Composition, abstracts, and written reviews. 

Geograiohy. — Cornell's Grammar School in general course (omit- 
ting Physical Geography), to Asia, page 92, and reviewed, with 
map drawing from memory, and the use of terrestrial globe. 

History of the United /S'l^afes.^Lossing's Primary, to page 118, and 
reviewed. 

Fourth Eeader, completed, with punctuations, definitions, and 
illustrations, and elementary sounds. * 

Written and oral spelling, with definitions, from Larger Speller 
and from reading lessons. 

Writing. — In such books as the Board may approve. 

Colburn's Common School Arithmetic to page 144 and reviewed. 
Colburn's Intellectual -Arithmetic. 

Extemporaneous exercises in combining series of numbers. 

Declamations and recitations. 

FIRST GRADE. 

Oral Instruction. — Properties of matter, laws of motion, etc.; 
elementary book-keeping- ; minerals ; government ; morals and 
manners. 

Grammar. — Greene's Elements completed; the course in this is 
limited to the large type, with oral written exercises, omitting the 
more difficult parts of analysis. Parsing and analysis from reading 
book, with especial attention to the rules of punctuation. 

Compositions; abstracts, and written reviews. 

Geography. — Cornell's Grammar School Geography in general 
review, with map drawing from memory and use of terrestrial 
globe. 

History. — Of the United States, Lossing's Primary, completed 
and reviewed, in connection with Anderson's History. 

Reading. — Fifth Reader, with punctuation, explanations and ele- 
mentary sounds. 



APPENDIX. 73 

Spelling. — Willson's Larger Speller, completed, with exercises in 
spelling from reading lessons, and other words selected by the 
teacher. Analysis of derivative and compound words, and a few 
selected rules of spelling. 

Writing. — In such books as the Board may approve. 

Arithmetic. — Colburn's Common School Arithmetic completed and 
reviewed. Extemporaneous exercises in combining series of num- 
bers. Difficult examples in mental arithmetic reviewed. 

Physiology. — Hooker's First Part. 

Declamations and recitations. 

Books of Reference for Teachers. — Wells' Graded Sclwol, Coudery's 
Moral Lessons, Dio Lewis', or Watson's Calisthenics, Boot's School 
Amusements, Pleasant Pages, Northend's Assistant, Holbrook's 
Normal Methods of Teaching, Calkin's, Sheldon's, Welch's Object 
Lessons, Barnard's American Journal of Education, "The Reason 
Why," Fireside Philosophy, Russell's Normal Training, Russell's 
Vocal Culture, Agassiz's Method, of Study in Natural History, Cali- 
fornia Teacher. 

Apparatus. — Holbrook's School Apparatus, geometrical forms and 
solids, materials for Object Lessons. 



BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. 



First Year. — Review of preparatory studies; Arithmetic; Algebra; 
General History; Book-keeping; Natural History; French. 

SecQud Year. — Algebra; Geometry; Rhetoric; Natural History; 
Book-keeping; Physiology; Physical Geography; Constitution of the 
United States, and Science of Government; French. 

Third Year. — Geometry; Natural Philosophy; English Literature; 
Moral Philosophy ; Plane Trigonometry ; French continued, or the 
Spanish language may be commenced by such pupils as have ac- 
quired a competent knowledge of the French. 

Fourth Year. — Surveying, Navigation, and the use of instruments ; 
Conic Sections; Moral Philosophy; Intellectual Philosophy; Chemis- 
try; Mineralogy; Geology; Assaying; Astronomy; French or Spanish. 

Drawing, Penmanship, Reading, English Grammar, Composition, 
Declamation, Physical Exercises shall receive , attention. Industrial 



74 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

Drawing during the last part of the course. All are not required 
to study the modern languages, but scholars may be excused upon 
the application of parents, in the discretion of the Faculty. 

Certificates that they have completed the partial or commercial 
course shall be granted to those who remain two years in the 
school, and pass an examination to the satisfaction of a majority of 
the Faculty. 

Scholars who shall continue in the school three and four years, 
shall, upon recommendation of a majority of the Faculty, receive 
diplomas stating the time they have been connected with the school; 
and in the case of those who have remained four years, it shall also 
be declared that thej have completed the full course of four years 
prescribed for the school. 

After the third year scholars may, on the written request of their 
parents, select the course of study, whether mathematical or scien- 
tific. 

Any young man of good moral character, a resident of San Fran- 
cisco, who has not time to enter the school as a regular student, 
may, by consent of the Committee, enter any class for which he is 
found competent, and pursue any branch of learning taught in the 
school. 

(It is designed that, while these should be the prominent studies, 
attention should be given, through the entire course, to reading, 
elocution and composition. During the last half of the course, lec- 
tures upon Astronomy and Chemistry shall be given.) 

TEXT-BOOKS. 

Beading. — Parker and Watson's National Fifth. • 

Orthography. — 

Arithmetic. — Robinson's Higher. 

G rammar. — Kerl's. 

Rhetoric. — Quackenbos' Advanced Lessons. 

Algebra. — Robinson's. 

Geometry. — Robinson's. 

Trigronome^ry.— Robinson's. 

Geography. — Warren's Physical. 

History. — Worcester's General. 

Chemistry. — Hooker's or Wells'. 

Natural Philosophy. — Quackenbos'. 



APPENDIX. 

Astronomy. — Brocklcsby's or Olmsted's. 

Constitution of United States. — Shcppard's. 

English Literature. — Shaw's, with Chrestnmathea. 

Book-keeping. — ^Mayliew's or Ilanaford & Paj'son's. 

Botany. — "How Kants Grow." Gray's. 

Geology. — Dana's or Hooker's. 

Mineralogy. — Dana's or Hooker's. 

Vocal Music. — To be selected. 

French. — Manesca's French Grammai' — Le Grand Pere. 

Spanish — Tolon's Reader. Grammar. 

Writing. — 

Draioing. — Burgess' System. 

Mensuration and Surveying. — Robinson's. 



GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL, 



Junior Classes. — Reading, Spelling, and Writing ; Arithmetic, 
Geography, and Grammar x'eviewed ; Physical Geography ; An- 
alysis of Language and Structure of Sentences ; Exercises in 
English Composition ; General History ; Algebra and French 
begun ; Drawing and Vocal Music. 

Middle Classes. — Algebra and French continued ; Rhetoric ; Phy- 
siology ; Natural Philosophy ; Chemistry begun ; Natural History; 
Exercises in English Composition ; Drawing and Vocal Music con- 
tinued ; Vocal Culture. 

Senior Classes. — French continued ; Geometry ; English Litera- 
ture ; Mental Philosophy ; Astronomy ; Chemistry continued ; 
Botany ; Composition and Exercises in Criticism ; Drawing ; Vocal 
Music and Vocal Culture. 

TEXT-BOOKS. 

Reading. — Parker and Watson's National Fifth. 
Vocal Culture. — Murdock and Russell's. 
Arithmetic. — Same as used in Grammar Schools. 
Grammar. — Same as used in Grammar Schools. 
Rhetoric. — Quackenbos' Advanced Lessons. 
Algebra. — Robinson's Elementary. 
Geometry. — Robinson's. 



76 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

Geography. — Warren's Physical. 

History. — Worcester's General. 

Chemistry. — Hooker's. 

Natural Philosophy. — Quackenbos'. 

Mental Philosophy.— 1o be selected. 

Astronomy. — Brocklesby's. 

English Literature. — Shaw's. 

Botany. — " How Plants Grow." Gray's. 

Vocal Music. — To be selected. 

French. — Manesca's French Grammar. Le Grand Pere. 

Writing. — 

Drawing. — 

Natural History. — To be selected. 

LATIN SCHOOL. 



Fourth Class. — 1. Andrew's and Stoddard's Latin Grammar; 2. 
Geography ; 3. Spelling ; 4. English Grammar ; 5. Arithmetic ; 6. 
Declamations ; 1. McClintock's First Latin Book ; 8. Csesar and 
Sallust ; 9. Arnold's Latin Prose Composition. 

Third Class. — 1, 3, 6, and 9 continued ; 10. McClintock's First 
Greek Book ; 11. French; 12. Algebra; 13. English Composition; 
14. Xenophon's Anabasis ; 15. Greek Grammar. 

Second Class. — 1, 6, 9, 12, 13, 14, and 15 continued ; 16. Ovid 
(selections); 1*1. History. 

First Class. — -1, 4, 6, 13, and 15 continued; 18. Virgil ; 19. Horace 
(selections); 20. Geometry; 21. Ancient History and Geography ; 
22. Rhetoric ; 23. Three Books of Homer. 

(The studies of the respective classes do not necessarily follow 
each other according to the numbers attached.) 



SALARY LIST. 



Salaries paid Teachers in the various S:^hooIs and Gt'ades of Classes 
in the San Francisco School Department, January, 1866, at 
present date : 

boy's high school. 

Per Month. 

Theodore Bradley, Principal $208 33 

Thos. C. Leonard, Teacher Mathematics 1*75 00 

Mrs. C. L. Atwood, Teacher Belle Lettres 100 00 

Miss T. F. Bennett, Teacher 67 50 

Paul Pioda, Teacher Modern Languages 150 00 

$tOO 83 

SAN FRANCISCO LATIN SCHOOL. 

George W. Bunnell, Principal $208 33 

Wm. K. Powell, Assistant 125 00 

A. L. Mann 100 00 

$433 33 

girls' high SCHOOL. 

Ellis H. Holmes, Principal $208 33 

Miss M. L. Bodwell, Assistant 100 00 

do M. F. Austin, " 100 00 

Madam V. Brisac, Teacher Mod. Languages.. 100 00 

$508 33 

LINCOLN GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 
Grade of Classes. 

L-a G. Hoitt, Principal 1&2 $175 00 

T. W. J. Holbrook, Sub. Master 2 125 00 

Philip Prior, Male Assistant 3 80 00 

Mrs. J. B. Hoitt, Head Assistant 83 33 

Miss Agnes M. Manning, Special Gr. Asst. . .4 80 00 

do H. A. Willard, Assistant 4 67 50 

do E. M. Bullene, do 4 67 50 



78 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

Miss T. J. Carter, Assistant, 4 6"! 50 

do L. T. Fowler, do 3 6t 50 

do L. F. Hitchings, do 3&4 6t 50 

do Lizzie B. Jewett, do 4 6150 

do N. Sturtevant, do 61 50 

do L. S. Swain, do 4 6150 

Mrs. F. E. Reynolds, do 3 61 50 

Miss P. M. Stowell, do 4 6150 

do S. Gr. Bunker, Spec'l Primary Assistant. 5 12 50 

do M. T. Kimball, do do . 5 61 50 

do C. L. Smith, do do .5 61 50 



DENMAN GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 
Grade of Classes. 

James Denman, Principal 1&2 $115 15 

Mrs. M. J. Warren, Head Assistant 83 33 

Miss L. E. Field, (Special Grade) 80 00 

Miss M. Keith, Assistant 5 6150 

Mrs. E. M. Baumgardner, Assistant 2 15 00 

Mrs. L. A. Clapp, do 4 6150 

Miss C. A. Sherman, do 4 6150 

Miss C. M. Pattee, do .4 6150 

Mrs. H. Pierson, do 3 6150 

Mrs. E. A. Wood, do . . . . .5&6 61 50 

Miss Mary Williams, do 4 61 50 

do N. M. Chadbourne, Assistant 3 61 50 

do Ada C. Bowen, do 6 61 50 

RINCON GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 

Grade of Classes. 

Ebenezer Knowlton, Principal 1 $115 00 

Miss H. M. Clark 2 6150 

do Helen Thompson, Head Assistant 1 83 33 

do C. V. Benjamin, Spec. Gr. do 4 80 00 

do F. A. Lynch, Assistant 4 61 50 

do M. E. Stowell, do 4 61 50 

do Lizzie B. Easton, Primary Assistant. . 6 50 62 

do M. A. E. Phillips, do . . 5 61 50 



,425 83 



1,021 58 



APPENDIX. 79 

Miss A. M. Dore, Primary Assistant 6 67 50 

do S. L. Hobart do . . 5 67 50 

. $793 95 

UNION GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 

Grade of Classes. 

Thos. S. Myrick, Principal 1 $175 00 

J. D. Littlefield, Sub Master 2 125 00 

Mrs. P. C. Cook, Head Assistant - 83 33 

Miss A. F. Aldrich, Special Grammar Assist- 
ant 4 80 00 

Miss E. M. Tibbey, Assistant 4 67 50 

Mrs. C. R. Beals, do 3 67 50 

Miss A. L. Eschenburg, do 5 67 50 

do C. P. Field, do 7 67 50 

do S. S. Sherman, do 4 67 50 

do C. A. Cummings, do 6 67 50 

do J. Drummond, do 8 67 50 

do Ellen Grant, do 10 67 50 

Mrs. A. Griffith, Principal Union and Mont- 
gomery Street Primary 8 100 00 

Miss L. M. Drummond, Assistant 10 67 50 

do Nellie S. Baldwin, do 9 67 50 

do H. M. Estabrook 50 00 

$1,288 33 

WASHINGTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 

Grade of Classes. 

James Stratton, Principal 1 $175 00 

H. E. McBride, Sub Master 2 125 00 

Mrs. H. L. Weaver, Head Assistant 83 33 

Miss D. S. Prescott, Special Grammar As- 
sistant 3 80 00 

Miss H. F. Richardson, Assistant 2 67 50 

do S. J. White, Assistant 4 67 50 

do Mary E. Cheney, Primary Assistant ... 4 67 50 

do E. F. Barker, do ... 4 6750 

$716 45 



80 PUBLIC SCHOOL EEPORT. 

MISSION GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 

G-rade of Classes. 

Ahira Holmes, Principal ■. . 1 and 2 $115 00 

J. H. Sumner, Assistant 85 00 

Miss A. A. Rowe, Special Primary Assist- 
ant 8 and 9 72 50 

Miss Jessie Smith, Assistant 3 and 4 67 50 

do Philena Sawyer, do 7 and 8 67 50 

do Julia Clayton, do 10 67 50 

do A. A. Hill, do 6 67 50 

do Emily F. Eaton, do 5 67 50 

do Maria O'Connor 50 62 

SPPJNG VALLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 
Grade of Classes. 

B. Marks Principal 1 and 2 $175 00 

Miss H. A. Haneke, Special Grammar As- 
sistant 5 and 6 80 00 

Miss S. M. ScotcMer, 67 50 

do M. J. Norton, Assistant 4 67 50 

do J. V. Barkley, do 7 and 8 67 50 

Mrs. C. D. Marks, do 9 and 10 50 62 

Miss A. Van Reynegon, Assistant 50 00 

THIRD STREET SCHOOL. 
Grade of Classes. 

Miss H. A. Lyons, Assistant 10 $67 50 

do A. S. Cameron, do 10 50 62 

POWELL STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL. 
Grade of Classes. 

Miss Caroline Price, Principal $100 00 

Mrs. E. S. Forester, Special Primary Assist- 
ant 8 72 50 

Miss M. A. Buifum, Assistant. . . 5 67 50 

do M. E. Very, do 6 67 50 

do S. E. Thurton, do 7 67 50 



$733 83 



1558 12 



$118 12 



APPENDIX. 81 

Miss C. A. Coffin, Assistant, t 67 50 

do M. E. Tucker, do 6 67 50 

Mrs. M. W. Phelps, do 9 67 50 

Miss E. G. Smith, Head Assistant Primary. 50 00 

$627 50 

GREENWICH STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL. 

Grade of Classes. 

Miss Kate Kennedy, Principal 4 $100 00 

do Fannie M. Cheney, Assistant 6 67 50 

do M. AVade, do ... 7 and 8 67 50 

do Agnes Chalmers, do 9 67 50 

do Fannie Mitchell, do 10 67 50 

do Fannie Soule, Head Assistant Primary . . 50 00 

$420 00 

HYDE STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL. 

Grade of Classes. 

Miss Hannah Cooke, Principal 7 $85 00 

do L. A. Huinpheys, Assistant 7 and 8 67 50 

do Kate Bonnell, Primary Assistant 10 50 62 

do A. B. Chalmers, do 7 and 9 67 50 

do A. Kenney, Polk and Austin streets . . 10 67 50 

do Deborah Hyman, 50 62 

$388 74 

SUTTER STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL. 

Grade of Classes. 

Miss C. L. Hunt, Principal 6 $85 00 

do J. M. A. Hurley, Assistant 8 and 9 67 50 

do N. A. Littlefield, do 7 67 50 

do H. S. Arey, do 10 50 62 

$270 62 

MODEL SCHOOL. 

Grade of Clasees. 

Mrs. C. H. Stout, Principal 7 and 8 100 00 

do M. L. Swett, Assistant 67 50 

$167 50 

FOURTH STREET PRIMARY. 

Grade of Classes. 

Mrs. L. A. Morgan, Principal 6 $100 00 



12 


50 


6t 


50 


67 


50 


67 


50 


67 


50 


67 


50 


67 


50 


50 62 


67 


50 


50 


00 



82 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

Miss S. A. Barr, Special Primary Assistant 7 

do J. C. Hahnlen, Assistant 8 

do S. H. Clark, do 7 

do Sadie Davis, do 8 

do M. J. Ritchie, do 6 

do Ellen Gushing, do 7 

do Maggie McKenzie, do 8 and 9 

do Mary J. Bragg, Primary Assistant. ... 10 

do Sarah M. Gunn, do do 9 and 10 

do A. P. Gibbons, Head Assistant Primary . 



MONTGOMERY STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL. 

Grade of Classes. 

Mrs. A. S. Duane, Principal 5 and 6 |100 00 

Miss P. A. Fink, Assistant 8 67 50 

do H. F. Parker, do 9 67 50 

do E. Overend, do 7 67 50 

do A. M. Bucks, do 9 67 50 

do Helen Satterlee, Primary Assistant. . .10 67 50 

do M. A. Krauth, Head Assistant 50 00 

SECOND STREET PRIMARY. 
Grade of Classes. 

Miss S. S. Knapp, Principal 5, 6 & 7 $85 00 

do E.N.Campbell, Assistant 9 67 50 

do L. W. Derby, do 9 & 10 67 50 

do E. White, do 9 & 10 67 50 

STEVENSON STREET PRIMARY. 
Grade of Classes. 

Mrs. M. C. Burt, Principal 6&7 |100 00 

do S. N. Joseph, Spec. Pri. Assistant. . 9 72 50 

do L. Deetkin, Head Assistant 67 50 

Miss Jennie Smith, do 8 67 50 

do M. F. Smith, do 8 67 50 

Mrs. M. F. Sumner, do 10 67 50 

do F. A. E. Nichols, do 9 50 62 

do H. A. Grant, Assistant 10 67 50 



$745 62 



$487 50 



$287 50 



$560 62 



APPENDIX. 83 

POST STREET PRIMARY. 

Grade of Classes. 

Miss Kate Slavan, Principal 5&6 $100 00 

do M. A. Salisbury, Assistant 1 61 -^0 

do L. A. Clegg, do 9 67 60 

do Ellen Holmes, Prob. Teacher 7 & 8 50 63 

do C. J. Neal, do 10 50 62 

do Bessie Malloy, Asst. do 67 50 



EIGHTH STREET PRIMARY. 

Grade of Classes. 

Miss A. E. Slavan, Principal 6 $75 00 

do A. M. Jourdan, Prob. Teacher 9 & 10 50 62 

do Evlyn Mosse, do 10 50 62 

do M. A. Humphreys, Assistant 7 & 8 67 50 

do A. E. Fressell 67 50 



HAYEs' Valley primary. 

Grade of Classes. 

Miss L. J. Mastick, Principal 5 & 6 $85 00 

do Jennie Gunn, Assistant 7&8 67 50 

do F. A. Stowell, do •. 9 & 10 67 50 

Miss Annie Jewett (Steiner st.) ... 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 

10 67 50 



BROADWAY STREET PRIMARY. 

Grade of Classes. 

Miss C. Comstock, Principal 10 $50 00 

Miss H. M. Gates, Assistant 10 67 50 



SAN BRUNO SCHOOL. 
Grade of Classes. 

Miss Jennie Sheldon, Principal 3, 6, 8 & 9 $70 00 



FAIRMOUNT SCHOOL. 
Mrs, H. H. Treat, Principal (mixed grade) $70 00 



$403 84 



$311 24 



$287 50 



$187 50 



$70 00 



$70 00 



84 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

WEST END SCHOOL. 
Mrs. Louisa Carter, Principal . . (mixed grade) $*I0 00 

POTRERO SCHOOL. 

Grade of Classes. 

Francis J. Leonard, PrincipaL .. .4, 6, 9 & 10 $70 00 



CHINESE SCHOOL. 
B. Lanctot, Principal (mixed grades) $80 00 



PINE STREET PRIMARY. 
Grade of Classes. 

Miss L. A. Prichard, Principal ... 5, 6, t, 8, 9, 10 $10 00 

COLORED SCHOOL. 

Grade of Classes. 

S. D. Simmonds, Principal 4, 5, 6 . $87 50 

Mrs. G. Washburn, Assistant 7,' 8, 9 & 10 75 00 

J. B. Sanderson — 5th street. . . . (mixed grade) 75 00 

SPECIAL TEACHERS. 

W. Elliot, Teacher Music. . ". $150 00 

F. K. Mitchell, Teacher Music 150 00 

F. Seregni, Teacher of Penmanship and Draw- 
ing 150 00 

H. Burgess, Teacher of Penmanship and Draw- 
ing 150 00 

A. B. Andrews, Teacher of Penmanship 125 00 



EVENING SCHOOL TEACHERS. 

K. K. Marriner, Principal ^ .Mixed Grade $75 00 

A. E. McGlynn, Assistant do 62 50 

J. D. Littlefield, do do 62 50 

E. D. Humphrey, do do 62 50 

Ealph Keeler, do do 62 50 

F. W. J. Holbrook, Principal do 75 00 

F. J. Leonard, Assistant do 62 50 



$70 00 



$0 00 00 



$80 00 



$70 00 



$237 50 



$725 00 



APPENDIX. 85 

R. Desty, Assistant, Mixed Grade 62 50 

L. D. Ailen, do do 62 50 

Miss Emily A. Pitts, Assistant,.. . do 62 50 

Mrs. Georgia WashlDurn, do . . do 62 50 

$712 50 



FOREIGN PRIMARY (tEHAMA STREET.) 

Miss M. Baillie, Mixed Grade $67 50 

do L. Dejarlias, do 50 62 

do Julia Chattelain, French. . . 
Mrs. U. Rendsburg, Gei'man .... 
Miss H. Graff, 

D. Lunt, Secretary $150 00 

Wm. Palmer, Carpenter 100 00 

Jacob Widber, do 100 00 

Georg-e Beanston, Messenger 100 00 



do 


67 


50 


do 


67 


50 


do 


50 


62 



JANITORS. 

H. M. Woodroffe— Union School $80 00 

Thomas Devine — Spring Valley 30 00 

0. Murry — Greenwich street 30 00 

J. Duffey— Office, $30; Colored, $10; Pacific, $10 55 00 

M. Beeching — Washington 50 00 

B. P. Fisher— High, $25 each ; Post, $25 ; Chi- 
nese, $5 80 00 

Jas. Healy— Powell, $30 ; Sutter, $25 ; Hyde, 

$25 ; Polk and Austin, $7 87 00 

J. Goldsmith — Montgomery street *. . . 30 00 

Wm. Vaughn — Rincon 50 00 

Wm. Burris— Fourth, $60 ; Third, $15 75 00 

Wm. Darrow— Denman 100 00 

G. W. Young— Mission 35 00 

J. D. Butler— Model, $30 ; Stevenson, $30 60 00 

Jno. Conroy — Lincoln 125 00 

P. J. O'Brien— Eighth street, $20; water, $5. . . 25 00 

Wm. Soule— Hayes' Valley, $25; Steiner, $10. 35 00 

N. Doming — Second and Tehama 40 00 

S. B. Cooper— Fairmount 10 00 

Mrs. Louisa Carter— West End 8 00 

Wm. C. Maurer— Potrero 10 00 



$303 74 



$450 00 



$1,015 GO 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SALARIES. 



San Francisco, June 13th, 1865. 

To the Honorable Board of Education: 

Gentlemen — Your Committee on Salaries and Judiciary, would 
respectfully recommend the following rates of salaries to be adopted 
for the ensuing year, viz : 

Per Month. Per Year. 

Principal of High School $207 33 $2,500 00 

Teacher of Mathematics 175 00 2,100 00 

Teacher of Classics 175 00 2,100 00 

Teacher of Modern Languages 100 00 1,200 00 

Principal of Grammar School 175 00 2,100 00 

Sub Master 125 00 1,500 00 

Head Assistant 83 33 1,000 00 

Special Assistant (Grammar) 80 00 960 00 

Assistants 67 50 81 000 

Principal of Primary School, with six or more 

classes, and charge of building 100 00 1,200 00 

Principal of Primary School, containing not 

less than four nor more than five classes, 

with charge of building 85 00 1,020 00 

Principal of the Eight Street School 75 00 900 00 

Special Assistant (Primary) 72 50 870 00 

Assistant (Primary) 67 50 810 00 

Principal of Outside Schools 70 00 840 00 

And all other salaries to remain as at present time. 

W. Ayer, 

Giles H. Gray, )■ Committee. 

J. H. Widber, 



EEPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE. 



San Francisco, January, 23d, 1866. 

To the Honorable Board of Education : 

Gentlemen — Your Committee on Finance and Auditing, have, in 
accordance with the instructions of your honorable body, examined 
the condition of the finances of the department, and beg leave to 
present the following Report : 

We find, by data furnished from the books of the 
School Department, that the receipts into the School 
Fund, during the present fiscal year, commencing 
the 1st of Jul}^, up to December 31st, 1865, (includ- 
ing balance of $828.52, in hands of the Ti-easurer, 
at the beginning of the year) amounted to $243,022 10 

Amount of demands on the School Fund, (including 

transfers to Sinking and Interest Funds of School 
Bonds, returned Taxes, etc.) paid for half year, 
ending December 31st, 1865, as shown by the books 
of the Treasurer, is 196,968 45 

Outstanding audited demands 19,278 40 



Making a total amount of demands audited against 

School Funds, from June 30th, to Dec. 31st, 1865. . $216,246 85 

The receipts into the School Fund, from January 15th, 1866, (date 
of present estimate) to June 13th, 1866, including balance 
on hand, December 31st. 1865, will be nearly as follows : 

Balance on hand, December 31st, 1865. . 26,775 25 
Apportionment of State School Fund, 

for January 1st, 1866 28,607 59 

Balance of Taxes 20,000 00 



600 


00 


2,500 


00 


2,806 


36 


250 


00 



88 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 

Rent of School Propei'ty 

Poll Taxes 

Surplus from Sinking Fund of Bonds of 

1854 

Evening Schools, (tuition fees) 

Total estimated receipts $81,539 20 

The necessary disbursements for bal- 
ance of fiscal year, including pre- 
sent liabilities, as follows : 

Demands on the table, and presented to 

date, (January 15) $6,266 15 

Salaries, Rents, etc., for six months.. . . 116,093 42 

General expenses of Department, out- 
side of regular monthly demands . . . 10,000 00 
Deficit 50,820 37 



$132,359 5t $132,359 5T 

Your committee have examined particularly for the cause of the 
deficit in the School Fund, for the present year, and find that the 
current income has equaled current engagements of this fiscal year^ 
and that the deficiency really existed against the department at the 
commencement of the present year. 

It will require the most rigid econom^^ to carry on the department 
the balance of this year, for the above-estimated sum. 

A. C. Nichols, 

Washington Ayer, ^ Committte. 

Chas. M. Plum, 



Note. — Since the above estimates were made by the Finance Committee, more recent esti- 
mates have been obtained from the office of the City and County Auditor, which place the 
balance to be received from taxes at about $10,000, and from poll taxes at about $500, making 
a diiference of about $12,000 in the amount of receipts, and, of course, increasing the deficit 
by that amount. 

Committee. 



APPENDIX. 



89 



CAPACITY OF LARGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN EASTERN AND 
WESTERN CITIES — NUMBER OF TEACHERS, AND 
NUMBER OF PUPILS IN SAME. 

PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO. 

Besides a large number uf F rimary Sc/iouls, Chicago has 14 of the 
highest Class or Grade having from 8 to 22 teachers, and from 600 
to 1,400 pupils in each. 

CINCINNATI PUBLIC SCHOOLS. (1864.) 
Besides several small schools, are the following : 







No. of Teachers in 


No. of Pupils in 






each School. 


each SciiOol. 


No. 1 . . . 




25 


1,187 
912 


No. 2 . . . 




19 


No. 3... 




16 
22 
16 


768 


No. 4 


1,034 


No. 5... 




848 


No. 6... 




28 


1,512 


No. 7 . . . 




22 
19 
19 


1,166 


No. 8 


969 


No. 9... 




1,007 


No. 10... 




25 


1,350 


No. 11... 




24 


1,128 


No. 12... 




22 


1,100 


No. 13... 




21 


1,218 


No. 14... 




20 


1,200 


No. 15. .. 




18 


1,008 



BOSTON PUBLIC GRAMMAR SCHOOLS. 

Boston has 23 Grammar Schools, with from 8 to 18 teachers, and 

a corresponding member of pupils, including the following : 



Schools. 


No. of Teachers in 
each School. 


No. of Pupils in 
each School. 


Bigelow School 


14 
16 
17 
19 
16 
17 
16 
17 


793 


Brinnmei' do 


876 


Dwight do 


820 


Eliot do 


967 


Franklin do 


900 


Hancock do 


810 


Lawrence do 


960 


Quincy do 


774 







90 



PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT. 
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 



Brooklyn has 32 large schools, with from 6-10-15 to 20 teachers, and 
a corresponding number of ijupils, including the following : 



Schools. 


No. of Teachers in 
each School. 


Registered Attendance 
in each School 


No 6 


22 

n 

15 
32 
24 
25 
26 
26 
21 
20 
22 
25 
20 


1,165 


No 11 


1,050 


No 12 


1,067 


No 13 


2,036 


No 14 ... 


1,125 


No 15 


1,595 


No 16 


1,595 


No 11 


1,402 


No. 18 


1,239 


No 19 


1,402 


No 22 


1,203 


No 25 


1,542 


No 2t 


1,121 







NEW YORK PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

N^ew York has 57 large schools, with from 12 ^o 53 teachers, and a 
ccrresponding numher of pupils, including the folloioing : 



Schools. 


No. of Teachers in 
each School. 


Average No. of Pupils 
in each School 


No. 11 


53 
43 
48 
43 
53 
49 
43 
43 
41 
41 
52 
52 
41 


1,990 


No 13 


1,432 


No 14 


2,037 


No. 15 


1,435 


No lY 


2,000 


No. 19 


1,56T 


No. 32 


1,531 


No. 33 


1,638 


No. 36 


1,254 


No. 42 


1,547 


No. 45 


1,805 


No. 48 


1,860 


No. 49 


1,319 







CONDITIONS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, FEBRUAEY 6th, '66, 



Since the foregoing was put in type, the School Reports for Jan- 
uary have been received, and furnish the following statistics : 

Whole number of pupils in buildings belonging to the City. 6,911 
Whole number of pupils in rooms rented by the Department, 3,036 

Total number enrolled in all the Public Schools.. . . 10,001 

Sixty-three Primary Classes, having an excess of pupils (over 
sixty.) 

Thirty-one Grammar Classes having an excess of pupils (over 

fifty-) 

Those Primary Classes having an excess of pupils, contain from 
sixty to ninety pupils each ; Grammar Classes, from fifty to eighty- 
three, i. e. an excess of from one to two to thirty-three pupils — a total 
excess in all of 691 pupils. 

Since the first of July last, there have been formed — 

Twenty Primary Classes, having an aggregate of . . . . 1,114 pupils. 

Thirteen Grammar Classes 114 pupils. 

Total number of classes formed since July 1st, 1865 33 

Total number of pupils thus accommodated since July 

1st, 1865 1,828 

And yet applications for admission to Public Schools are nearly as 
numerous and pressing as they have ever been at any time previous 
to July last. A correct idea is readily gained from these facts and 
figures, as to the necessity of at once, (and very greatly) increasing 
our Public School facilities — more especially is this apparent when, 
in addition to the above, we remember the 11,000 children in the 
city under six years of age, and that 3,995 of these become pupils 
in less than eighteen months hence. 

J. C. P. 



92 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPOKT. 

FORMER MEMBERS OF THE BOARD 

X: 21 Ix i lo 



Names of 












Members from 


Disricts. 


1856-'57. 


1857-'58. 


1858-'59. 


1859-'60. 


1851 to 1866. 












C. J. Brenham. . 
C. L. Boss 


let Dist . . 


E.W.Fishbourne 


E. O'Neil 


E. O'Neil 


E. O'Neil 


Jos. F. Atwell . . 
Jolin Wilson 


adDist... 


J. C. Mitchell. . . 


A. S.Edwards... 


J. H. Widber . 


J. H. Widber . . . 


H'nry E.Lincoln 
S. E. Harris 


3d Dist... 


Wm. Sberman . . 


Wm. Sherman.. 


I. B. Purdy. . . 


Wm. M. Hixon . 


N. HoUand 

"W. H. Bovee. . . . 


4th Dist . . 


Wm. Hooper . . . 


S. B. Stoddard. . 


Wm. Bartling. 


Wm. Bartling. . . 


E. K. WaUer 

C. 0. West 


5th Dist . . 


W. W. Estabrook 


A. Taudler 


J. H. Birewer.. 


J. H. Brewer — 


W. H. Talmage. 
H.LWeUs 


6th Dist . . 


J. Hunt 


C. L. Taylor 


H. B. Janes... 


H. B. Janes 


J. K. Eose 

C. E. Garrison . . 


7th Dist . . 


Wm. Pearson. .. 


Wm. Pearson . . . 


Wm. Pearson. 


Wm. Pearson... 


S.P.Webb 

J. B. Moore .... 


8th Dist . . 


E. B. Goddard.. 


E. B. Goddard.. 


Geo. Cofran... 


Geo. Cofran 


F. BiUings 

J. P. June 


9th Dist . . 


P. M. EandaU.. . 


J. 0. Eldridge... 


J. 0. Eldridge. 


J. 0. Eldridge... 


W. A. Piper 

J. P.Buckley... 


10th Dist . . 


Geo. M.Blake... 


C. C. Enowles . . 


C. C. Kaowles. 


C. C. Knowles.. 


J. S. Benson. ... 
E. S. Tibbetts . . 


11th Dist . . 


Geo. Leger 


E. Judson 


E. Judson .... 


E. Judson 


F. C. Ewer 












EUsha Cook 


12th Dist . . 


L. P. Sage 


J. S. Dungan.... 


J. S. Dungan.. 


J. S. Dungan.. . . 


Jas. Van Ness . 




J. C. Pelton, 


J. C. Pelton, 


H. P. Janes, 


H. P. Janes, 


T. J. Kevins, 
Supt. and Sec'y 
1852-1853. 

W.H. 'Grady, 
Supt. 




Supt. and Sec'y 
W. H. O'Grady, 

Supt. and Sec'y 
E. A. Theller, 

Supt. 


Supt. and Sec'y 

H. P. Janes, 

Secretary. 


Supt. 

Saml.Barkley, 
Secretary. 


Supt. 

Jas. Denman. 

Supt. 

Jas. Pearson, 


1853-1854. 




B. Macy, Sec'y. 






Secretary. 



APPENDIX. 93 

OF EDUCATION OF SAN FRANCISCO. 

it .A.. 



1860-'61. 


1861-'62. 


186a-'63. 


2863-'64. 


1864-'65. 


1865-'66. 


E. Donnelly . . 


E. Donnelly.. . 


L. B. Mastick.. 


L. B. Mastick.. 


L. B. Mastick... 


L. B. Mastick. . 


J. H. Widber . 


J. H. Widber. . 


J. H. Widber. . . 


John F. Pope. . 


John F. Pope.. . 


H. T. Graves.. . 


HDEllerhorst 


HDEllerhorsi 


J. W. Dodge... 


J. W. Dodge... 


Washn'ton Ayer 


Wash'ton Ayer. 


Wm. Bartling. 


Wm. Bartling. 


Wm. Bartling. . 


G. B. Hitchcock 


G. B. Hitchcock. 


Jos. W. Winans 


G. W. Beers . . 


AXi.Hathaway 


Laf'tte Story.. 


Lafayette Story 


W. A. Grover. . . 


W. A. Grover... 


H. B. Janes . . 


Jas. Bowman. 


Jas. Bowman . . 


Erwin Davis... 


Giles H. Gray. . . 


A. C. Nichols . , 


Wm. Pearson. 


Wm. Pearson. 


W. G. Badger.. 


Wm. G. Badger 


Wm. G. Badger. 


Wm. G. Badger 


Francis Blake 


Geo. Cofran . . 


Geo. Cofran 


E. D. Sawyer. . 


J. L. N. Shepard 


Geo. C. Hickox. 


W. L. Palmer. 


W. L. Palmer. 


W. L. Palmer. . 


J.N. Eisdon... 


S. B. Thompson. 


S. B. Thompson 


C. C. Knowles. 


C. C. Knowles. 


C.C. Knowles.. 


J. H. Widber.. 


J. H. Widber... 


S. C. Bugbee.. . 


M. Lynch 


M. Lynch 


M. Lynch 


M. Lynch 


M. Lynch 


M. Lynch 


J. S. Dungan.. 


Jos. M. Wood. 


Jos. M. Wood.. 


Daniel Lixnt. . . 


Abner Doble 


Chas. M. Plum. 


Jas. Denman, 


Jas. Denman.. 


Geo. Tail, 


Geo. Tait, 


Geo. Tait, 


Jno. C.Pelton, 


Supt. 


Supt. 


Supt. 


Supt. 


Supt. 


Supt. 


Jas. Pearson, 


Jas. Pearson, 


DHWhittemore 


DHWhittemore 


Daniel Lunt, 


Daniel Lunt, 


Secretary. 

1 


Secretary. 


Secretary. 


Secretary. 


Secretary. 


Secretary. 



y^ 



EIIIIA.TA^, 



In sixteenth line from top of page five, read "5 teachers." 
In ninteenth line on same page, read " 3 classes." 
Table on eighth page (Exhibit D), as total monthly salaries in 
Latin School, read "$433.33;" tuition per pupil, read "$6.n." 

In same table, as total monthly salaries in Boys' High School, 
read "$t00.13; tuition per pupil, read "$8.54." 
In last line of thirteenth page, read "$19,093.22." 
In thirteenth Hue of fifteenth page, read '* $52,113.44 for build- 
ings," etc. 






INDEX 



Statement of Condition of Department — Page. 

History of Its Organization 3-4-5 

Number of Schools, Classes, Teachers, and Pupils 5-B 

Age of Pupils, and Grades (5-1 

Table D — Present Organization of Public Schools S-9 

Finances — 

Sources of Support of Public Schools 10-13 

Building Policy of last and former years 14-15 

Receipts and Disbursements of present year 16-21 

Deficiency in present year's funds 21-22 

Means of Economy Suggested 23-30 

Salaries paid Teachers 29 

School Accommodations Required , 34-45 

Character of present School Accommodations 35-31 

Census Returns, August, 1865 38 

Legislation Required 44 

Suggestions for procuring Building and other Funds.. . . 45-48 

Concluding Remarks 49-50 

What the Committee asks for 50-51 

District Statistics — 

Necessities of each District— Accommodations in detail. 52-50 

Architect's Report 60-63 

Real Estate of School Department 64-66 

Course of Instruction in the Public Schools 67-76 

Salary List 7 7-85 

Report of Committee on Salaries 86 

Report of Committee on Finance 87-88 

Large Schools of Eastern Cities 89-90 

Present Condition of Public Schools 91 

Former and present Members of the Board of Education 92-93 

Errata 94 



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